Not on display
- Artist
- Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, Bt 1833–1898
- Medium
- Graphite, pastel and gouache on paper
- Dimensions
- Support: 1224 x 516 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Purchased 1919
- Reference
- N03426
Display caption
These cartoons were first used for a stained-glass window in Jesus College Chapel, Cambridge. The window also includes a third figure, the Delphic Sibyl, to the left of St Luke. The panels of glass were installed in 1873, joining other designs by the artist, which were already in place. In the almost sculptural form of St Luke it is possible to see the marked influence of Italian Renaissance art and especially of Michelangelo: while in Rome
in 1871 Burne-Jones spent a day lying on his back in the Sistine Chapel studying Michelangelo's ceiling through opera glasses.
Gallery label, August 2004
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1875
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Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, Bt Atlas Turned to Stone; The Rock of Doom and the Doom Fulfilled; The Court of Phineas; The Baleful Head
1875–6
Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, Bt St Alban
1875
Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, Bt Design for a Window: St James the Greater
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Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, Bt Composition Study for ‘The Merciful Knight’. Verso: Composition Study for ‘St Valentine’s Day’
c.1863
Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, Bt Two Studies of a Seated Male Nude for ‘The Liberation of St Peter’ in the Church of St Michael and All Angels, Lyndhurst, Hampshire
c.1863
Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, Bt Study of a Seated Male Nude for ‘The Liberation of St Peter’ in the Church of St Michael and All Angels, Lyndhurst, Hampshire
c.1863
Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, Bt Studies of Drapery and the Figure of the Virgin for the ‘Annunciation’ in the Church of St Martin’s-on-the-Hill, Scarborough, Yorkshire
c.1862
Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, Bt Fountain of Youth
1873–81
Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, Bt The Finding of Medusa; The Death of Medusa (The Birth of Pegasus and Chrysaor); Perseus Pursued by the Gorgons
1875–6
Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, Bt The Magic Circle
c.1882
Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, Bt Sidonia von Bork 1560
1860
Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, Bt Figure Study for ‘The Rose Bower’ (Briar Rose Series). Verso: Study of the Head of Merlin for ‘The Beguiling of Merlin’
c.1872–7