The Light of the World

William Holman Hunt

1853-54

Oil on canvas

Collection: Manchester Art Gallery

Accession no. 1912.53

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Details and related material

The Exhibition of Modern British Art in America, 1857-1858

Original 1851-53 version in Keble College, Oxford

Version in St Paul's Cathedral

Scan provided by Dennis T. Lanigan. Kindly made available by the gallery (via Art UK under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives licence (CC BY-NC-ND).

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

_____. 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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