Focus on this artwork and discuss the abstract.
The Miracle of the Holy Fire (1892–1899) is an oil painting on canvas by the English artist William Holman Hunt which depicts the Greek Orthodox rite of the Holy Fire in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre Jerusalem. Hunt believed the fire to be a pious fraud which brought Christianity into disrepute. He intended the painting to be a satire in the manner of William Hogarth. Hunt published an elaborate keyplate explaining the identity of the various characters depicted.
It is now in the Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
William Holman Hunt Church of the Holy Sepulchre Cambridge, Massachusetts Fogg Art Museum Holy Fire pious fraud William Hogarth Greek Greek Orthodox