Burne-Jones, Edward (1833-1898) Vespertina Quies (Evening Quiet) 1893 Oil on canvas, 107.9 x 62.2 cm Tate Britain, London This picture evokes a mood of contemplation and stillness. Its Latin title means ‘Evening Quiet’. Burne-Jones is believed to have employed a model…
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…
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…
Burne-Jones, Edward (1833-1898) Nymphs of the Moon 1896 Tempera on paper, 32.8 x 24.8 cm National Museum Wales, Cardiff
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…
Burne-Jones, Edward (1833-1898) Venus Discordia 1873 Oil on canvas, 128.2 x 209.8 cm National Museum Wales, Cardiff Born in Birmingham, but of Welsh extraction, Burne-Jones was much admired by early twentieth-century Welsh critics. A friend of William Morris and an associate…
Gainsborough, Thomas (1727-1788) The Road from Market 1767–1768 Oil on canvas, 121.3 x 170.2 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo
Jordaens, Jacob (1593-1678) Adam and Eve (The Fall of Man) 1640s Oil on canvas, 184.5 × 221 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest Compare: Jordaens, Jacob (1593-1678) Adam and Eve 1642 Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo
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
Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973) Femme au chapeau noir (Woman in a Black Hat) 1909 Oil on canvas, 73 x 60.3 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo