The Third Temptation
- Title
- The Third Temptation
- Student Commentary:
- In this plate from Blake’s Illustrations to the Bible (1957 facsimile), Jesus stands on top of a cliff after resisting the third temptation, which was Satan’s promise to give Jesus everything as long as Jesus pledged his allegiance to Satan. Jesus looks upon the swarming, dark clouds that trail the falling Satan. The shining light and two angels, in the top left, have arrived after Jesus has successfully resisted all of Satan’s temptations. This watercolor is from a series of about 80 works that Blake painted for one of his patrons, Thomas Butts, in the early 1800s.
- Item sets
- Blake at Union
- Site pages
- Illustrations to the Bible (1957)
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