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A-Level: 19th-century religious painting

Paul Gauguin, Vision after the Sermon - detail — Gauguin contemplates modern culture’s distance from spirituality in this vivid, evocative canvas.

Paul Gauguin, Vision after the Sermon (or Jacob ...

Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Ecce Ancilla Domini - detail — Both Millais and Hunt offered to help Rossetti correct the perspective in his Annunciation scene–why did he refuse?

Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Ecce Ancilla Domini

Sir John Everett Millais, Christ in the House of His Parents - detail — Charles Dickens took umbrage with this unusual depiction of the Holy Family—find out why.

Sir John Everett Millais, Christ in the House ...

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