Wood, Esther; Rossetti, Dante Gabriel [Ill.]: Dante Rossetti and the pre-Raphaelite movement (London: Sampson Low, Marston, 1894)

CHAPTER VI.

TREATMENT OF RELIGIOUS SUBJECTS.
The Re-birth of Religious Art—“God, Immortality, Duty”
—The Pre-Raphaelites and the Reconstruction of
Christianity—The Halo in Painting—The Responsibility
of Womanhood—The “ Girlhood of Mary Virgin ” and
“ Ecce Ancilla Domini ”—PTe Problem of Suffering-
“Christ in the House of His Parents,” “The Passover in
the Holy Family,” “ The Shadow of Death,” “ The
Scapegoat ”—Hunt’s Symbolism—-“ The Light of the
World”—Rossetti’s Symbolism—“Mary Magdalene at
the Door,” and “ Mary in the House of John ”—The Idea
of Victory Through Suffering—“ Bethlehem Gate ”—“ The
Triumph of the Innocents”—The Spirit of Inquiry-
“Christ in the Temple”—The Atonement—“The Infant
Christ Adored ”—Comparison with Madox Brown and
Burne-Jones—“The Entombment”—“The Tree of Life.”

“ OD—Immortality—Duty;” such were
I - the weighty words chosen by one of the
greatest women of our century as the
text of a now historic conversation in the shadow
of St. John’s College, Cambridge. The student
to whom she spoke has told us with what a tender