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Article: Painting the Bible: Representation of Belief in Mid-Victorian Britain.(Book review)
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- March 1, 2008
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Painting the Bible: Representation of Belief in Mid-Victorian Britain. By Michaela Giebelhausen. British Art and Visual Culture since 1750. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 2006. xii + 249 pp. $99.95.
This work began as a dissertation and carries with it an intensity of focus. The book is essentially not an overview of belief in mid-century Britain or of Bible illustration in general, but of the Christian imagery of the Pre-Raphaelite painters. Michaela Giebelhausen does attempt to contextualize these painters' work with some allusion to continental parallels and English precedents. The problematic for Britain cannot be overstated; since the reign of Edward VI in 1547, ...
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