Jesus stands with His arm raised over a crowd seated on the ground. Hofmann draws the listeners close and varied: young and old, some leaning forward, some looking up.
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Other masters in room 26, The Light of the World:
Carl Bloch
The Sermon on the Mount, 1877
Oil on copper
Museum of National History, Frederiksborg Castle
One of the 23 King's Oratory paintings
James Tissot
The Sermon of the Beatitudes, 1886–1894
Opaque watercolor over graphite on gray wove paper
Brooklyn Museum, purchased by public subscription (00.159.124)
Harry Anderson
Sermon on the Mount
Under copyright, so not shown here.
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Image: Wikimedia Commons (from the Internet Archive). The work itself is in the public domain.
