Christ in Majesty with Cherubim and Serphim (study for mosaic)
Datec. 1881-1882
Artist
Edward Burne-Jones
(British painter, 1833–1898)
MediumGraphite on paper
Dimensions14 × 10 in. (35.6 × 25.4 cm)
frame: 22 5/8 × 18 9/16 in. (57.5 × 47.1 cm)
frame: 22 5/8 × 18 9/16 in. (57.5 × 47.1 cm)
Credit LineF. V. du Pont Acquisition Fund and Gift of Paul R. Miles, 1992
Object number1992-70.2
On View
Not on viewClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextIn 1881, Burne-Jones was asked to design the mosaics for St. Paul’s Within-the-Walls, the American Church in Rome. The church was designed in Byzantine style by his friend, the English Gothic Revival architect George Edmund Street (1824-1881). The drawings in the Museum’s collection are related to the mosaic in the dome of the apse representing Heavenly Jerusalem, completed in 1885. The design was inspired by the mosaic decoration at the early medieval church of San Apollinare Nuovo in Ravenna, which Burne-Jones had visited some years previously.
