Re-viewing William Blake’s Paradise Regained (c.1816–1820)
This article presents a revisionist reading of William Blake’s (1757–1827) twelve watercolor designs for John Milton’s “Paradise Regained” (c. 1816–1820). The designs have previously been dismissed in critical commentary as of little interest to Blake scholarship, or regarded as a narrative merely a...
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| Τύπος μέσου: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Άρθρο |
| Γλώσσα: | Αγγλικά |
| Έλεγχος διαθεσιμότητας: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
| Έκδοση: |
2018
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| Στο/Στη: |
Religion and the arts
Έτος: 2018, Τόμος: 22, Τεύχος: 1/2, Σελίδες: 16-39 |
| Τυποποιημένες (ακολουθίες) λέξεων-κλειδιών: | B
Blake, William 1757-1827
/ Εικονογράφηση
/ Milton, John 1608-1674, Paradise regained
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| Άλλες λέξεις-κλειδιά: | B
Baptism of Christ
William Blake
Χριστιανός (μοτίβο)
cosmology
John Milton
Paradise Regained
Satan
Temptations of Christ
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| Διαθέσιμο Online: |
Volltext (Publisher) |
| Σύνοψη: | This article presents a revisionist reading of William Blake’s (1757–1827) twelve watercolor designs for John Milton’s “Paradise Regained” (c. 1816–1820). The designs have previously been dismissed in critical commentary as of little interest to Blake scholarship, or regarded as a narrative merely about Christ’s human nature. This article argues that they are also a visual expression of Blake’s cosmology; it is proposed that the designs express a positive cosmology, in which Paradise is not so much to be regained, as re-viewed. The article argues that Blake emphasizes Christ’s divinity in the designs and that he is depicted as an immanent, sacramental presence in the world; hence, the world that Christ inhabits in the designs is a Paradise. The article begins by outlining its reading of Blake’s view of the material world, and moves on to discuss the “Paradise Regained” designs in detail, with a particular focus on The Baptism of Christ, the opening subject of the series, which establishes the positive cosmology presented throughout the series. |
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| Φυσική περιγραφή: | Online-Ressource |
| ISSN: | 1568-5292 |
| Περιλαμβάνει: | In: Religion and the arts
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15685292-02201001 |
