Art world links which caught my eye...
William Holman Hunt "The Light of the World" (1853)
Verity Babbs, a writer from Artnet, comments on a work of art which brings her joy, even as she tries to deny its meaning.
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood of the 1800s was an English group of painters and poets who rejected the then fashionable promotion of Raphael (March 28 or April 6, 1483 – April 6, 1520) as the pinnacle of artistic achievement.
"The work I've chosen is William Holman Hunt's 1853 painting The Light of the World, which is hung in the side chapel of Keble College, Oxford. This feels like a potentially odd choice from an atheist because the painting is an allegorical depiction of Jesus taken from Revelation 3: 'Behold, I stand at the door and knock.'
"Jesus stands at a door, which is overgrown with ivy and which can only be opened from the inside as it has no handle. Almost-bare trees in the background and fallen fruit and leaves on the ground let us know that this is autumn. He's holding a lit lantern and the warm glow that pours from it illuminates him from a deep, green, early dawn.
"It's said that it took Holman Hunt so long to complete the painting because he wanted to perfectly capture this moment, just before the sunrise. It's classically Pre-Raphaelite in style. Jesus's robe is heavily decorated and the lantern is ornate, with clear influence taken from Holman Hunt's travels in the Middle East."
Hopefully the author of that piece will answer the knock one day.
Read the full article here: ARTNET - Art We Love - A Truly Luminous Pre-Raphaelite Christ
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