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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 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 (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…

Adam and Eve (1642)

Jordaens, Jacob (1593-1678) Adam and Eve 1642 Oil on canvas, 203.2 x 182.9 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo Compare: Jordaens, Jacob (1593-1678) Adam and Eve 1640s Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest    

Cupid’s Hunting Fields (1885)

Burne-Jones, Edward (1833-1898) Cupid’s Hunting Fields 1885 Gouache, with watercolor and gold and silver paints on ivory wove paper, laid down on linen canvas, 99.5 x 76.9 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago

The Love Song (1868-1877)

Burne-Jones, Edward (1833-1898) The Love Song 1868–1877 Oil on canvas, 114.3 x 155.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Burne-Jones associated this painting with a refrain from a French folk ballad: “Alas, I know a love song, / Sad or…

Le vase de fleurs (1940)

Chagall, Marc (1887-1985) Le vase de fleurs (The Vase of Flowers) 1940 Gouache, 64 x 46.5 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

The Trysting Place (1875)

Homer, Winslow (1836-1910) The Trysting Place 1875 Watercolor and gouache over traces of pastel and graphite, 30.5 x 20.5 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton

Home, Sweet Home (c.1863)

Homer, Winslow (1836-1910) Home, Sweet Home c.1863 Oil on canvas, 54.6 x 41.9 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington In a camp, two soldiers wearing blue uniforms are lost in thought as they listen to a military band playing music in the…