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Painting the Bible : representation and belief in mid-Victorian Britain / Michaela Giebelhausen.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: British art and visual culture since 1750, new readingsPublisher: Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2006]Copyright date: ©2006Description: xiv, 246 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour) ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0754630749
  • 9780754630746
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 755.4094109034 22
LOC classification:
  • ND467 .G53 2006
Contents:
1. Introduction : translating the Bible for the age -- 2. Religious painting and the high-art ideal : tradition, modification and innovation -- 3. The fascination of paradox : the pre-Raphaelite challenge -- 4. The making of William Holman Hunt as the painter of the Christ -- 5. Epilogue : ideal subjects glowing with poetry.
Review: "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 analyses the position of religious painting in the academic discourse and assesses the important role Pre-Raphaelite work played in redefining religious 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 academism, 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."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-239) and index.

1. Introduction : translating the Bible for the age -- 2. Religious painting and the high-art ideal : tradition, modification and innovation -- 3. The fascination of paradox : the pre-Raphaelite challenge -- 4. The making of William Holman Hunt as the painter of the Christ -- 5. Epilogue : ideal subjects glowing with poetry.

"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 analyses the position of religious painting in the academic discourse and assesses the important role Pre-Raphaelite work played in redefining religious 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 academism, 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."--BOOK JACKET.

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