Search results for: “Edward Burne-Jones”
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The Star of Bethlehem, Edward Burne-Jones
The Star of Bethlehem, Edward Burne-Jones On Google Art Project, high res downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons, original is in the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery. Watercolor and bodycolor on ten sheets of paper, on stretcher, 101 × 152 in (260 cm × 390 cm), or roughly 8 ft x 12 ft. Based on his…
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Eye Candy for Today: Burne-Jones’s Mirror of Venus
The Mirror of Venus, Edward Burne-Jones Link is to Wikimedia Commons, original is in the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon. Pre-Raphaelite painter Edward Burne-Jones, who went on to be a major figure in style known as Aestheticism, presents a tableau of female figures, some staring at their reflections in the mirror of a still pond, others…
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Eye Candy for Today: Burne-Jones’ King Cophetua
King Cophetura and the Beggar Maid, Edward Coley Burne-Jones On Google Art Project; high-resolution downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Tate, Britain. The Tate’s website has some background on the painting and the story it presents. There is more in an article on the painting on Wikipedia.
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Eye Candy for Today: Burne-Jones’ Golden Stairs
The Golden Stairs, Edward Coley Burne-Jones On Wikimedia Commons. Zoomable version on Google Art Project. Original is in the Tate, London
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Eye Candy for Today: etching after Burne-Jones
The Cumaean Sibyl, etching and drypoint by Charles-Albert Waltner from a drawing by Edward Burne-Jones. An example of an etching designed by one artist and executed by another, as was common practice in the 19th century. Original is in the Metropolitan Museum of art. Image size is roughly 17×7 inches (44x17cm).
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Valentine Cameron Prinsep
Though not technically a member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (which consisted of only seven artists and writers) Valentine Cameron Prinsep was certainly within the inner levels of their circle. He was good friends with John Everett Millais and Edward Burne-Jones, worked on a project for the Oxford Union with Dante Gabriel Rosetti, and studied in…