William Holman Hunt | The Hireling Shepherd | 1851 | Hidden Meaning скачать в хорошем качестве

William Holman Hunt | The Hireling Shepherd | 1851 | Hidden Meaning

https://www.edwardandezra.com/ This painting was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1852 with a quotation from Edgar’s song in King Lear: Sleepest or wakest thou, jolly shepherd? Thy sheep be in the corn; And for one blast of thy minikin mouth, Thy sheep shall take no harm. The moral of Holman Hunt’s painting was explained by the artist himself to the burghers of Manchester, when they acquired the painting in 1897: It was meant as a "...rebuke to the sectarian vanities and vital negligencies… Shakespeare’s song represents a shepherd who is neglecting his real duty of guarding the sheep… He was the type of muddle-headed pastors, who, instead of performing their services to the flock—which is in constant peril—discuss with questions of no value to any human soul. "My fool has found a Death’s Head Moth, and this fills his little mind with forebodings of evil, and he takes it to an equally sage counsellor for her opinion. She scorns his anxiety from ignorance rather than from profundity, but only the more distracts his faithfulness. While she feeds her lamb with sour apples, his sheep have burst bounds and got into the corn. I did not wish to force the moral, and I never explained it till now. For its meaning was only in reserve for those who might be led to work it out."