Saint Cecilia Christ Church Cathedral Oxford England circa 1900
by Peter Ogden
Title
Saint Cecilia Christ Church Cathedral Oxford England circa 1900
Artist
Peter Ogden
Medium
Glass Art - Stained Glass Window
Description
This is a restored copy of Saint Cecilia, a hand made stained glass devotional holy ecclesiastical church window designed circa 1900 by British Pre-Raphaelite influenced painter Sir Edward Burne-Jones, 1833-1898, for the Christ Church Cathedral at Oxford, England.
This is one of approximately thirty versions of the window created by the brilliant and gifted Englishman, Burne-Jones and produced by the company started by William Morris, 1834–1896. This elegant Saint Cecilia portrayal is an artifact of the Arts and Crafts movement begun by Morris and Jones. As close companions at Oxford, Morris and Burne-Jones became followers of the highly intelligent Brit, John Ruskin and the magnificent Pre-Raphaelite school. Jones and Morris set into motion Ruskin's splendid ideas for the rebirth of art. Morris and Jones worked to balance the influences of the mechanical era by restoring fine medieval craftsmanship, decoratively enhancing items of mundane life. Along with creating sculptures and paintings, Burne-Jones learned from the exceptionally talented Pre-Raphaelite artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti which included the creation of murals, tapestries, and stained glass for William Morris’s highly successful business enterprises.
The Gothic Revival manner in building design generated a demand for stained glass windows, particularly in the 1870s, when Burne-Jones was an exuberant originator of unsurpassed beautiful British Victorian era stained glass windows. The smooth, undulating method and the submissive demeanor of the exceedingly tall, beautiful and elegant European woman harken back to the Italian Renaissance paintings of the great Florentine genius Sandro Botticelli, circa 1445–1510, while the background with its embroidered drapery of pomegranate trees and fruits and the opulently detailed embroidered fabric call to mind the last magnificent Gothic epic of Italian European design, circa 1400.
Saint Cecilia was an ancient Christian Roman virgin martyr who developed into the patron saint of music and she was often displayed with an organ type of musical instrument. Water organs were known in the old world, pipe organs first debuted during the fourteenth century as another invention of European musical inventive genius.
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October 4th, 2021
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