# Christ as the Redeemer of Man [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [BLAKE, William]() - Date: 1751-1800 - Technique: Pen and watercolour, 496 x 393 mm ## Commentary Blake's visionary drawing style is demonstrated in this illustration to Milton's Paradise Lost, III. Christ floats in the air before God the Father, the position of his body referring to his death on the cross. The expressive, outsized hands of his father touch him lightly. Four angels accompany Christ on his way to EEarth. The unremitting movement contains tension. Even in terms of colour the divine realm is divided from the void, in which Satan, armed with a spear, attempts to prevent God's plan of redemption for the world. The scene is characterized by symmetry and repetition, and is not only illuminated by the artist's technique, but is also enlightened spiritually. ## Related artworks - [Adam and Eve Sleeping]() - [Albion, Symbolic Figure]() - [Elisha in the Chamber on the Wall]() - [Elohim Creating Adam]() - [Hecate or the Three Fates]() - [Isaac Newton]() - [Job and his Daughters]() - [Job Confessing his Presumption to God who Answers from the Whirlwind]() - [Lear Grasping a Sword]() - [Los Entering the Grave]() - [Los]() - [Nebuchadnezzar]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()