The Light of the World

Hunt paints Christ knocking at a long-overgrown door that opens only from within, lantern in hand. The intensely symbolic image became one of the most reproduced of the Victorian age.

The Light of the World

William Holman Hunt

  • Datec. 1853
  • MovementPre-Raphaelite
  • WhereKeble College, Oxford, Oxford
  • RegionBritain