Moses and the Brazen Serpent. Marble. Cathedral of Our Lady, Antwerp, Belgium. Marble. Click on image to enlarge it.
Related material
- The Brazen Serpent as a Biblical Type
- Robert Anning Bell's book illustration
- On the frame of Holman Hunt's The Shadow of Death
- In Holman Hunt's Melchizedek
- Carlyle uses it satirically in The French Revolution and Hudson's Statue
- George Hedgeland's Stained Glass in Jesus College, Oxford
- Gustave Doré's Bible Illustration
- Mosaic panel in William Butterfield's Keble College Chapel, Oxford
Photograph by George P. Landow. You may use this image without prior permission for any scholarly or educational purpose as long as you (1) credit the photographer and (2) link your document to this URL in a web document or cite the Victorian Web in a print one.]
Bibliography
Landow, George P. Victorian Types, Victorian Shadows: Biblical Typology in Victorian Literature, Art, and Thought. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1980. [Reprinted 2015] Complete text on the Victorian Web.
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