"Painting the Bible" is the first book to investigate the transformations that religious painting underwent in mid-Victorian England. It charts the emergence of a Protestant realist painting in a period of increasing doubt, scientific discovery and biblical criticism. The book analyzes the position of religious painting in academic discourse and assesses the important role Pre-Raphaelite work played in redefining painting for mid-Victorian audiences. This original study brings together a wide range of material from high art and popular culture. It locates the controversy over the religious works of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in debates about academicism, revivalism and caricature. It also investigates William Holman Hunt's radical, orientalist-realist approach to biblical subject matter which offered an important updating of the image of Christ that chimed with the principles of liberal Protestantism. The book will appeal to scholars and students across disciplines such as art history, literature, history and cultural studies. Its original research, rigorous analysis and accessible style will make it essential reading for anyone interested in questions of representation and belief in mid-Victorian England.
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Nowhere did William Michael Rossetti's observation hold more true than in the Victorians' attempts to redefine religious painting. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
historical genre painting, gentle domesticity, scriptural painting, aggressive realism, traditional history painting, biblical subject matter, academic paradigm, decoration scheme, scriptural subjects, biblical painting, religious painting, biblical representation, early art, religious subject matter, pictorial conventions, pictorial language, academic conventions, academic ideal, reprinted ibid, alternative aesthetic Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
House of His Parents, New Testament, Jesus Christ, Royal Academy, Art Journal, Holy Family, The Butcher's Shop, Henry Howard, John Ruskin, Westminster Cartoon Competitions, Campo Santo, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Egyptian Hall, Millais's Christ, Old Testament, William Dyce, David Wilkie, William Michael Rossetti, British Institution, Ford Madox Brown, Herbert's Our, High Church, Holy Land, Houses of Parliament, Lord Lindsay New!
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Nowhere did William Michael Rossetti's observation hold more true than in the Victorians' attempts to redefine religious painting. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
historical genre painting, gentle domesticity, scriptural painting, aggressive realism, traditional history painting, biblical subject matter, academic paradigm, decoration scheme, scriptural subjects, biblical painting, religious painting, biblical representation, early art, religious subject matter, pictorial conventions, pictorial language, academic conventions, academic ideal, reprinted ibid, alternative aesthetic Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
House of His Parents, New Testament, Jesus Christ, Royal Academy, Art Journal, Holy Family, The Butcher's Shop, Henry Howard, John Ruskin, Westminster Cartoon Competitions, Campo Santo, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Egyptian Hall, Millais's Christ, Old Testament, William Dyce, David Wilkie, William Michael Rossetti, British Institution, Ford Madox Brown, Herbert's Our, High Church, Holy Land, Houses of Parliament, Lord Lindsay New!
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- The Life of Christ by Frederic W. Farrar on 4 pages
- The Holy Land by David Roberts on page 65, page 159, and Back Matter
- The Life of Jesus (Great Minds Series) by Ernest Renan on page 130, and page 132
- Modern Painters by John Ruskin on page 27, and page 154
- The Art of the Pre-Raphaelites by Elizabeth Prettejohn in Back Matter
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