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The Atrakening Conscience by Alan Bowness
Holman Hunt was 27 In 1853 when he painted The Awakening Conscience, now in the Tate Gallery in London. It is a picture of illumination and personal revelation, the secular counterpart of The Light of the World. Alan Bowness , art historian, considers the picture's allusions to the Bible and to such contemporary literary giants as Tennyson and Dickens.

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