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the artist on Sunday: William Holman Hunt - The Scapegoat

WH Hunt, The Scapegoat, 1854-58, oil on canvas, 33, 7 x 45.9 cm, City Art Galleries, Manchester

nature of Truth. Among the principles of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood the truth of nature was perhaps the most important. The fidelity of the representation of what you watched "live" was essential. To be honest, have something to communicate to the public was of vital importance.

The William Michael Rossetti wrote , I repeat with more force John Ruskin, a famous critic and among the intellectual founders of the restoration.

William Holman Hunt taken literally this principle. Linked to the Christian Scriptures, the Bible was his favorite literary source. His pictorial themes arising from the greater episodes of Christ's life, but there are symbolic references to the Old Testament. To be faithful to the Brotherhood way of working, she decided to take a trip to the Middle East . He went to Palestine, Jerusalem for paint the faces of real Jews, to paint the decoration of the Temple, to bring once the furniture is reliable, true fact.

theme that kept him busy for a long time, in two different versions, is developed in the painting The scapegoat. Starting from the ancient Jewish tradition of leaving a goat in the wilderness, as an offering for their sins, produced a double symbolic value: a Jewish , the other meanings Christological . He bought a goat and went to Jerusalem on the shores of the Dead Sea to retrieve reliable setting for the scene. In the painting skulls of sacrificed goats are visible before sinking into the sand, the same one that also houses the goat dark Hunt, sand of various shades of blue, streaked with yellow. In the background, beyond the salt lake, a mountain range deep blue streaked with red, a pale sky closes the canvas, showing the sun, probably in the morning, and clouds on the right. Detail that will disappear in the next version of the painting is a rainbow, which incorporated the primary colors , the only such careful observation, which are present in the painting. Look carefully you notice that the sand and the lake house the reflection of the mountains.

In the Jewish tradition is inserted the prophecy of the coming of Christ, known to be represented as a lamb, the very idea of \u200b\u200bsacrifice goes back to the history of justification of Christians through the sacrifice of Jesus

Hunt worked long in the East, also visiting Egypt , who however did not impress much. For the performance of the mountains helped with binoculars, to better observe the conformation and render it in paint truthfully.

The painting was completed in England, but not without the work of its evocative power. ;

The objectives and features of the painting of the Pre-Raphaelites are still living in the complaint Croce in Italy and becomes extremely difficult to understand the artistic revolution that began admiring even an apparently simple as that.