Jesus stands on a high rock with His arm raised, and the crowd covers the hillside below Him. Tissot paints it from among the listeners, so we look up at Him the way they did.
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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
Heinrich Hofmann
Preaching to the Multitude, by 1893
Drawing, reproduced as an illustration
From an 1893 edition of Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ
Harry Anderson
Sermon on the Mount
Under copyright, so not shown here.
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Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York.
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Image: Brooklyn Museum, via Wikimedia Commons. The work itself is in the public domain.
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