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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

Discussion in detail

Keble College, Oxford.

Details and related material

  • Later St. Paul's version
  • Christ's lantern (St. Paul's version)
  • Study for the lantern
  • Christ's head and the typological breastplate (Manchester version)
  • Words inscribed on frame (Manchester version)
  • Vegetation (Manchester version)
  • Copies in other media

    • Bibliography

    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.

    Maas, Jeremy. 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.


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