TY  - BOOK
AU  - Giebelhausen,Michaela
TI  - Painting the Bible: representation and belief in mid-Victorian Britain 
T2  - British art and visual culture since 1750, new readings
SN  - 0754630749
AV  - ND467 .G53 2006
U1  - 755.4094109034 22
PY  - 2006///]
CY  - Aldershot, Hants, England, Burlington, VT
PB  - Ashgate
KW  - Bible
KW  - Illustrations
KW  - Painting, British
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Painting, Victorian
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Pre-Raphaelites
N1  - 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
N2  - "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
ER  -