The Light of the World
William Holman Hunt
1851-53
Oil on canvas over panel
arched top, 49 3/8 x 23 l/2 inches
Keble College, Oxford.
References
Landow, George P. "Shadows Cast by The Light of the World: William Holman Hunt's Religious Paintings, 1893-1905." The Art Bulletin, 64 (1982), 646--55
Landow, George P. Replete with Meaning: William Holman Hunt and Typological Symbolism. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1979.
Holman Hunt's "The Light of the World". New Haven and London and Berkeley: Scholar Press, 1984.
The Pre-Raphaelites. London: Tate Gallery/Allan Lane, 1984.
Wood, Christopher. The Pre-Raphaelites. London: Seven Dials, Cassell & Co, 2000.
Last modified December 2001