| Title: | The First Temptation—" Command that these stones be made bread." |
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| Notes: | Illustration from "Paradise Regained" by John Milton. "For Blake, inspiration and vision are not to be learned: they can only be received. You either have them or you do not. He distrusted learning, artifice, the acquisition of skills, the attainments of reason...But he knew his Bible initmately, and professed himself a Christian." [from English Spirituality: From 1700 to the Present Day, by Gordon Mursell. Westminster John Knox Press, 2001, p. 53] |
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| Date: | 1816-1825 |
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| Artist: | Blake, William, 1757-1827 |
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| Object/Function: | Watercolor |
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| Scripture: | Luke 4:1-13
Matthew 4:1-11
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| Lectionary links: | CLent01
ALent01
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| General Subject: | Temptation of Christ
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| ICONCLASS Number: | Luke 4:1-13
Matthew 4:1-11
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| Attribution: | Blake, William, 1757-1827. The First Temptation—" Command that these stones be made bread.", from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. https://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=54291 [retrieved April 25, 2024]. Original source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:ParadiseRBlake2.jpg. |
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| Record Number: | 54291
Last Updated: 2021-08-17 07:27:11
Record Created: 2010-02-17 12:15:03 |
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| Institution: | Vanderbilt University
Collection: Art in the Christian Tradition |
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| Bibliographic Source: | English spirituality: from 1700 to the Present Day |
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| Author: | Mursell, Gordon |
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| Publisher: | Westminster John Knox Press |
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| Date: | 2001 |
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