# Milton [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MUNKÁCSY, Mihály]() - Date: 1851-1900 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 210 x 300 cm ## Commentary Artistically not satisfied with just painting salon pictures and landscape. Munkácsy longed for more profound themes. The painting "Milton" was the result of this search. Munkácsy depicted the blind poet dictating the text of "Paradise Lost" to his daughters Eve, Judith and Rachel. By portraying Milton, Munkácsy chose to talk about the deepness of human suffering, and about the painful and strugglesome life of the creative people. The wonderful colours of this painting evoke the brilliance of his salon pictures. ## Related artworks - [Baby Visitors]() - [Biboulous Husband]() - [Christ before Pilate \(detail\)]() - [Christ before Pilate]() - [Churning Woman]() - [Condemned Cell \(The Convict\)]() - [Dusty Country Road I]() - [Dusty Country Road II]() - [Ecce Homo!]() - [Flowers]() - [Golgotha \(detail\)]() - [Golgotha]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()