Sir John Everett Millais, RA: Religious Themes and Context

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Transience and Mortality

• Autumn Leaves, 1856
• Capturing a Transient Moment: Millais's Autumn Leaves
• Millais's Melancholic Beauty in Autumn Leaves
• Mortality, Purity, and Religious Contemplation in Autumn Leaves
• Nostalgic Intensity in Autumn Leaves
• The Vale of Rest, 1858
• The North-West Passage, 1874

Religious Themes and Biblical Allusion

• Christ in the House of His Parents, 1849-50
• Victory, O Lord!, 1870
• The Blindgirl, 1856
• A Huguenot, on St. Bartholomew's Day refusing to shield himself from danger by wearing a Roman Catholic badge, 1851-52
• Mariana and Angelo or Mary and the Angel

Religious Conflict

• A Huguenot, on St. Bartholomew's Day refusing to shield himself from danger by wearing a Roman Catholic badge, 1851-52

The Victorian Context

• Religion in Victorian Britain (homepage)
• The Church of England (the Anglican or Established Church)
• The High Church
• Evangelicals within and without the Church of England

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