Symbol, Image, and Motif in the work of Sir John Everett Millais

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Religious symbolism — biblical typology

• Christ in the House of His Parents (table, nail, Jesus’s wounded hand, rushes, sheep, dove, ladder, instruments of Christ’s torture, John the Baptist)
• The Blind Girl (the rainbow)
• Mariana (Annunciation scene in stained glass)
• The Woodman's Daughter (the apple)
• Victory, O Lord! (Moses raises his arms in prayer)
• Biblical types: an introduction

Other imagery: uniforms and badges

• A Huguenot, on St. Bartholomew's Day refusing to shield himself from danger by wearing a Roman Catholic badge, 1851-52
• The Order of Release
• The Black Brunswicker

Other imagery: sunset

• A The Vale of Rest
• Autumn Leaves

Other imagery: flowers, leaves, and transience

• Apple Blossomsor Spring
• Autumn Leaves
• Ophelia
• Little Speedwell's Darling Blue
• Mariana

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