Tag: drapery

Saint Cecilia (c.1900)

Burne-Jones, Edward (1833-1898) Saint Cecilia c.1900 Stained and painted glass, 213.5 x 75.5 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton This window is the result of a collaboration between the Pre-Raphaelite painter Burne-Jones and the firm founded by William Morris, who initiated…

The Sleep of King Arthur in Avalon (c.1881)

Burne-Jones, Edward (1833-1898) The Sleep of King Arthur in Avalon (modello) c.1881 Oil on canvas, 82.6 × 288.3 cm Museo de Arte de Ponce, Ponce Compare: Burne-Jones, Edward (1833-1898) The Sleep of King Arthur in Avalon 1881–1898 Museo de Arte de Ponce, Ponce  …

King Arthur at Avalon (study)

Burne-Jones, Edward (1833-1898) King Arthur at Avalon (study) s.d. Mixed media on paper on wooden strainer, 191.4 x 54.7 x 2 cm National Museum Wales, Cardiff Compare: Burne-Jones, Edward (1833-1898) The Sleep of King Arthur in Avalon 1881–1898 Museo de Arte de Ponce, Ponce…

The Golden Stairs (1880)

Burne-Jones, Edward (1833-1898) The Golden Stairs 1880 Oil on canvas, 269.2 x 116.8 cm Tate Britain, London This painting is an example of Burne-Jones’s interest in investigating a mood rather than telling a story. He deliberately made his pictures mysterious and…

King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid (1862)

Burne-Jones, Edward (1833-1898) King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid 1862 Oil on canvas, 76.2 x 63.5 cm Tate Britain, London Compare: Burne-Jones, Edward (1833-1898) King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid 1884 Tate Britain, London     Burne-Jones, Edward (1833-1898) Study of a head s.d. National…

King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid (1884)

Burne-Jones, Edward (1833-1898) King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid 1884 Oil on canvas, 293.4 x 135.9 cm Tate Britain, London This work was based on Alfred Tennyson‘s poem ‘The Beggar Maid’. King Cophetua of Ethiopia falls in love with Penelophon, a…

Perseus and the Graiae (1877)

Burne-Jones, Edward (1833-1898) Perseus and the Graiae 1877 Oil, gold leaf, silver leaf and gesso on oak, 152 x 169 cm National Museum Wales, Cardiff This extraordinary work occupies the boundary between painting and sculpture, and was the centrepiece of one…

La Adoración de los Reyes Magos (c.1655-1660)

Murillo, Bartolomé Esteban (1617-1682) La Adoración de los Reyes Magos (The Adoration of the Magi) c.1655–1660 Oil on canvas, 190.8 x 146.1 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo Bartolomé Esteban Murillo became the leading painter in devoutly Catholic Seville, Spain, from…

The Crowning of Saint Catherine (1631 or 1633)

Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640) The Crowning of Saint Catherine 1631 or 1633 Oil on canvas, 265.7 x 214.3 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo Rubens painted this magnificent painting as an altarpiece for the Church of the Augustinians in Mechelen (Malines),…