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TV Listings Text Only Site A-Z FourDocs ... GAMES In this section The novel Children's fiction Poetry Painting Architecture Theatre Music Photography Find out more The above menu requires Javascript. In 1854, William Holman Hunt (1827-1910) exhibits The Light of the World , a picture that shows Jesus holding a lantern and knocking on a door, symbolically asking to be let into the heart of the viewer. In an age of doubt, it affirms Christian religious belief. Its message is that a saviour, a man-god, can come and redeem sinful humankind. fallen sinner . The models for the bearded face of Jesus are Elizabeth Siddal, lover of the painter Gabriel Dante Rossetti ( see below ) and herself a painter, and the poet Christina Rossetti ( see below ), Gabriel's sister. Still, it becomes the most popular of Victorian paintings: Hunt makes four versions of it, it is engraved and millions of photographic reproductions are sold. In 1905, one copy of the original tours the colonies and thousands of people flock to see what they think is a sacred object. Finally, this is the age of

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