About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 32. Chapters: 1850 paintings, 1851 paintings, 1852 paintings, 1853 paintings, 1854 paintings, 1855 paintings, 1856 paintings, 1857 paintings, 1858 paintings, 1859 paintings, The Scapegoat, Ophelia, The Heart of the Andes, Washington Crossing the Delaware, The End of the World, Ovid among the Scythians, The Gleaners, The Awakening Conscience, Christ in the House of His Parents, The Stonebreaker, A Dream of the Past: Sir Isumbras at the Ford, The Hireling Shepherd, The Bookworm, The Last of England, Madame Moitessier, The Order of Release, Peace Concluded, A Burial At Ornans, Ferdinand Lured by Ariel, The Light of the World, Convent Thoughts, Autumn Leaves, A Converted British Family Sheltering a Christian Missionary from the Persecution of the Druids, A Huguenot, The Kiss, John Ruskin, Bocca Baciata, The Artist's Studio, The Long Engagement, Take your Son, Sir!, The Blind Girl, Monarch of the Glen, Oxford Union murals, View of Geelong, The Rescue, April Love, The Lackawanna Valley, The Ninth Wave, Mariana, Francesca da Rimini and Paolo Malatesta appraised by Dante and Virgil, O Pobre Rabequista, The Proscribed Royalist, 1651, The Vale of Rest, The Stone Breakers, La rencontre, The Horse Fair, The Wheat Sifters, Arkansas Traveller, La Danse, The Return of the Dove to the Ark, Le concert champetre, The Crossing Sweeper, The flood of Saint-Cloud, Shepherdess Seated on a Rock. Excerpt: The Scapegoat (1854-6) is a painting by William Holman Hunt which depicts the "scapegoat" described in the Book of Leviticus. He started painting on the shore of the Dead Sea, and continued in his studio in London. The work exists in two versions. In the Royal Academy exhibition catalogue Hunt wrote that "the scene was painted at Oosdoom, on the margin of the salt-encrusted shallows of the Dead Sea. The mountains beyond are those of Edom." He painted mo...
