CAS AH 287 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: The Awakening Conscience, Tangled, Annie Miller

• School: Boston University
• Department: History of Art & Architecture
• Course: CAS AH 287
• Professor: Jonathan Ribner

Document Summary

Hunt s awakening conscience meant as its modern foil (light of the world) Hunt painted all the furnishings as well as the clothing with meticulous care, since to him they represented the material world that distracts human attention from spiritual matters. The awakening conscience was conceived as the material counterpart to hunt"s the light of the. World (1851-3, warden and fellows of keble college, oxford). Proverbs: "as he that taketh away a garment in cold weather, so is he that singeth songs to an heavy heart". With his typical thoroughness, hunt hired a room at woodbine villa, 7 alpha place, st john"s. Wood, a "maison de convenance", to use as the setting. A gentleman has installed his mistress (known to be such because of her absence of a wedding ring) in a house for their meetings. As they play and sing to thomas moore"s oft in the stilly night, she has a sudden spiritual revelation.