Search results for: “holman hunt”
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Eye Candy for Today: Holman Hunt’s The Scapegoat
The Scapegoat, Willaim Holman Hunt; oil on canvas; roughly 34 x 55 inches (86 x 140cm). Link is to image file on Wikipedia, original is in the Lady Lever Art Gallery, National Museums Liverpool. From the Bible: book of Leviticus, which is where we get the general concept as we use the term today. For…
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Eye Candy for Today: William Holman Hunt watercolor still life
Still Life with Plums, William Holman Hunt Watercolor on paper, roughly 12 x 14 inches (30 x 37 cm); in the collection of the Morgan Library and Museum. (Zoomable and downloadable versions of the image are available on the site.) A beautiful and sensitively observed still life by the Pre-Raphaelite master. It appears to be…
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Eye Candy for Today: Holman Hunt’s Dovecot
The Festival of St Swithin (The Dovecot), William Holman Hunt Link is to a larger version on The Athenaeum, original is in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. The version on the Ashmolean site is likely more accurate, I’ve lightened the slightly larger version from the Athenaeum to match it in value. I usually like to have…
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William Holman Hunt and the Pre-Raphaelite Vision
Sin and Salvation: William Holman Hunt and the Pre-Raphaelite Vision is the title of a show of the artist’s paintings, drawings, engravings, photographs and other items (64 objects) opening on June 14 at the Minneapolis Institute of the Arts. Hunt is one of the three principle founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, and along with Sir…
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Eye Candy for Today: Holman-Hunt’s Isabella
Isabella and the Pot of Basil, William Holman Hunt (large version) Image from Get Into New Castle. Original is in the Liang Art Gallery, which doesn’t have its collection online. This article on The Journal shows the size of the original. This is the larger of two versions painted by Holman-Hunt. The smaller one, which…
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William Holman-Hunt
There are more dramatic images I could have chosen to represent Holman-Hunt, The Scapegoat, for example or The Hireling Shepherd, but this painting, Isabella and the Pot of Basil , has a personal connection for me because I’ve been visiting the original in the Delaware Art Museum since I was an adolescent. The painting was…