Wednesday, October 28, 2009

William Holman Hunt - The Triumph of the Innocents


2 comments:

Lucy Corrander said...

Hmmm . . .

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

Lucy

Hermes said...

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.