Victorian Art & Design
Burne-Jones Art Galleries and Places to Visit
Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery is in Chamberlain Square, a short walk from New Street Station and from St Philip's Cathedral, which has four magnificent Burne-Jones windows. He was born nearby. The Gallery has early works like Phyllis and Demophoon and The Merciful Knight and later ones like the four paintings of Pygmalion and the Image, the Cupid and Psyche frieze from George Howard's London house, The Feast of Peleus, a cartoon for King Cophetua and the huge water colour, The Star of Bethlehem, from his tapestry design for Morris. Its Holy Grail tapestries, by Burne-Jones and William Morris are exhibited once every five years, e.g. from Nov 28 2008 -Feb 22 2009.
London, Tate Britain, early works like Clara von Bork and Sidonia von Bork, and famous later works, like King Cophetua and The Golden Stairs.
Port Sunlight, Lady Lever Art Gallery, works here include The Beguiling of Merlin and The Tree of Forgiveness, another version of the legend of Phyllis and Demophoon.
Southampton Art Gallery, ten full size coloured cartoons for The Legend of Perseus, designed for the music room of Arthur Balfour, and a Sleeping Lancelot
Cambridge, Mass. USA, Fogg Art Gallery, Day and Night, Pan and Psyche, The Depths of the Sea, the only work which Burne-Jones sent to the Royal Academy. The Days of Creation, also known as The Angels of Creation, shown at The Grosvenor Gallery in 1877. Pan and Psyche can be seen with drawings for The Angels of Creation and other works from the Fogg's Winthrop Collection at the National Gallery, London, 25 June-11 Sept 2003.
Stuttgart, Germany, the Staatsgalerie, the magnificentPerseus series for Balfour's music room.
The American Church in Rome, Saint Paul Within the Walls, Via de Napoli and Via Nazionale www.stpaulsrome.it mosaics above the two arches and in the apse, the lower tier was completed after Burne-Jones' death by his studio assistant T.M. Rooke. He used Burne-Jones's sketches but had to give the saints the faces of famous Americans like Abraham Lincoln, as well as portraits of himself and Burne-Jones.
Stained glass designed by Burne-Jones can be seen all over the world,
e.g. the five windows in Oxford Cathedral. Many churches are locked, but click on
'Burne-Jones Books' below for details of Ann S. Dean's Burne Jones and
William Morris. This book gives details of the phone numbers needed to see
windows in roughly thirty churches and chapels. Most are in the Cotswolds and
Oxford but there are brief details of five in London.
Burne-Jones Quiz
Books on Burne-Jones