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Wednesday, October 28, 2009

William Holman Hunt - The Triumph of the Innocents


2 comments:

  1. Hmmm . . .

    Not sure a massacre can be responded to with such a cheerful (sentimental?) resolution.

    Lucy

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  2. Hunt was a very keen Christian and to him it was ultimately a triumph - the key word.

    http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/online/pre-raphaelites/triumph/

    http://www.victorianweb.org/painting/whh/replete/triumph.html

    The whole concept of matrydom seems bizarre to me.

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