Friday Featured Art: The Light of the World

William Holman Hunt was one of the Pre-Raphaelite painters of the 1800s. He did a piece called The Light of the World, which hangs in the chapel at Keble College Oxford. It is rather dark and medieval looking, but I like the idea. Christ is standing at the door, knocking. The tall weeds show that the door to the soul has long been unopened. I think that the dawn and the stars in the background are very pretty. Holman Hunt painted this picture outside in natural light. We saw his third version of the painting in the Middlesex Chapel at St. Paul's Cathedral (the picture at the bottom is from their site).