Question: Which artist created a series of 60 paintings in 1985 based on scenes and images of the 17th-century play Othello?
Context: Jonathan Eastman Johnson (July 29, 1824 – April 5, 1906) was an American painter and co-founder of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, with his name inscribed at its entrance.  He was best known for his genre paintings, paintings of scenes from everyday life, and his portraits both of everyday people and prominent Americans such as Abraham Lincoln, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.  His later works often show the influence of the 17th-century Dutch masters, whom he studied in The Hague in the 1850s; he was known as "The American Rembrandt" in his day. The Bloody Banquet is an early 17th-century play, a revenge tragedy of uncertain date and authorship, attributed on its title page only to "T.D." It has attracted a substantial body of critical and scholarly commentary, chiefly for the challenging authorship problem it presents.  It has been attributed to a collaboration between Thomas Dekker and Thomas Middleton. Othello is a series of paintings executed in 1985 by Nabil Kanso.  The subjects of the paintings are loosely based on Shakespeare’s tragedy Othello.  The series comprises 60 paintings dealing with themes of love, race, jealousy, betrayal, and evil.  They depict scenes embodying compositions of figural and metaphorical imagery that may be seen as visually reflecting the intimate and dramatic relationship between Othello and Desdemona, and the tense and uneasy relation that passes between and through Othello, Desdemona and Iago. Los disparates ("The Follies"), also known as Proverbios ("Proverbs") or Sueños ("Dreams") is a series of prints in aquatint and etching, with retouching in drypoint and burin, created by Spanish painter and printmaker Francisco Goya between 1815 and 1823.  Goya created the series while he lived in his house near Manzanares (Quinta del Sordo) on the walls of which he painted the famous "Black Paintings".  When he left to France and moved in Bordeaux in 1824, he left these works in Madrid apparently incomplete.  During Goya's lifetime, the series was not published because of the oppressive political climate and of the Inquisition.  "The disparates" series was first published by the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando in 1864 under the title "Proverbios" ("Proverbs").  In this edition, the titles given to the works are Spanish proverbs.  On proofs of many plates there are titles handwritten by Goya, which include the word "Disparate" ("Folly").  The series is an enigmatic album of 22 prints (in the first place 18 - 4 works were added later) which is the last major series of prints by Goya, which the artist created during the last years of his life.  The scenes of the "Disparates", which are difficult to explain, include dark, dream-like scenes that scholars have related to political issues, traditional proverbs and the Spanish carnival. Othello is a character in Shakespeare's "Othello" (c. 1601–1604).  The character's origin is traced to the tale "Un Capitano Moro" in "Gli Hecatommithi" by Giovanni Battista Giraldi Cinthio.  There, he is simply referred to as the Moor. Sir Philip Burne-Jones, 2nd Baronet (1861–1926) was the first child of the British Pre-Raphaelite artist Sir Edward Burne-Jones and his wife Georgiana Macdonald.  He became a well-known painter in his own right, producing more than 60 paintings, including portraits, landscapes, and poetic fantasies. Christopher Fitzgerald is an American painter based in Austin, Texas.  Born in 1977, he graduated from Western Washington University in 1999.  After his college education, Fitzgerald spent the summer in Italy and France studying art and returned to Seattle where he first began exhibiting his paintings.  His first solo show sold out in the fall of 1999 during the WTO protests.  "Austin Chronicle" visual arts writer Rachel Koper listed him as one of her “favorite individual artists of 2004” and one of her “favorite artists by body of work in 2005.”  Shortlisted for Austin Museum of Art's 22-To-Watch 2005 exhibition and the Arthouse Texas Prize in 2006, he then studied at the Yale University School of Art in the summer of 2008.  Leading up to his studies at Yale, the artist created the Public Paintings Project by distributing small paintings throughout the world for people to find in public places.  In 2015, his paintings were featured in the New American Paintings publication.  Studying under Brian Alfred and Robert Yarber, Fitzgerald received his MFA from Penn State University.  He currently holds an appointment as assistant professor of art at Concordia University Texas. The List of painters in the Web Gallery of Art is a list of the named painters in the Web Gallery of Art (WGA).  The online collection contains roughly 34,000 images by 4,000 artists, but only named artists with oil paintings in the database are listed alphabetically here.  The painter's name is followed by a title of one of their paintings and its location, which is hosted on the WGA website.  For painters with more than one painting in the WGA collection, or for paintings by unnamed or unattributed artists, see the Web Gallery of Art website or the corresponding Wikimedia Commons painter category.  Of the 2,463 painters in the WGA database, over a quarter are Italians and about a third were born in the 17th-century, and they are mostly men.  There are only 44 women, including Sofonisba Anguissola, Rosa Bonheur, Artemisia Gentileschi, Catharina van Hemessen, Angelica Kauffmann, Judith Leyster, Louise Moillon, Clara Peeters, Rachel Ruysch, and Elisabeth Louise Vigée-LeBrun. Pathomachia, or the Battle of Affections", also known as Love's Lodestone", is an early 17th-century play, first printed in 1630.  It is an allegory that presents a range of problems to scholars of the drama of the Jacobean and Caroline eras. Fenton House is a 17th-century merchant's house in Hampstead in North London which belongs to the National Trust, bequeathed to them in 1952 by Lady Binning, its last owner and resident.  It is a detached house with a walled garden, which is large by London standards, and features roses, an orchard and a working kitchen garden.  The interior houses the Benton Fletcher collection of early keyboard instruments, some of which are often played for visitors during operational hours, and collections of paintings (including the collection of Peter Barkworth, and loans of Sir William Nicholson paintings), porcelain, 17th-century needlework pictures and Georgian furniture.  It also has fine portraits of Dorothea Jordan, William IV, George IV, Frederick FitzClarence and Adolphus Fitzclarence - one of Jordan's daughters by William IV lived in the house.
Answer: Nabil Kanso