Search Results for: Edward Burne-Jones

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 Read More …

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 Read More …

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 Read More …