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(established 1875), <i>Saint Cecilia</i>, ca. 1900. Stained and painted glass; 213.5 × 75.5 cm, 234.6 × 88.3 × 4.1 cm (frame, oak). 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This window is the result of a collaboration between Burne-Jones, a painter, and William Morris, a designer. They were inspired by the writings of John Ruskin, who argued for a return to medieval handicraft techniques, as well as the anti-academic, anti-industrial views of the artists known as the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Burne-Jones and Morris sought to counter the effects of the machine age by abolishing distinctions between fine and decorative arts and beautifying objects of everyday life. This window, for example, was likely made for a private home.\n","remarks":"EUR1_02-05_WLA-Day 1 Cataloguing "},{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Handbook Entry","textentryhtml":"\r\nOne of nearly thirty versions of a window designed by Burne-Jones and executed by the company founded by William Morris (1834–1896), <I>Saint Cecilia</I> is a product of the Arts and Crafts movement they initiated. Friends at Oxford, Morris and Burne-Jones became disciples of John Ruskin and the Pre-Raphaelite movement and put into practice his vision for the renewal of art. They sought to counter the effects of the machine age by reviving medieval crafts, abolishing distinctions between fine and decorative arts, and beautifying objects of everyday life. Morris wrote on the philosophy of art and founded a company to execute textiles, wallpaper, and other objects, while Burne-Jones, in addition to painting and sculpting, studied with the Pre-Raphaelite painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti and designed murals, tapestries, and stained glass for Morris’s company. </P>\r\nThe Gothic Revival style in architecture created a market for stained glass, especially in the 1870s, when Burne-Jones was a particularly prolific designer of windows. The first Saint Cecilia window, at Christ Church, Oxford (1875), shows the influence of the early Renaissance art he had seen in central Italy, most recently in 1871. The flat, abstracted, linear style and the wilting pose of the impossibly tall, graceful woman make reference to the work of Botticelli (Florentine, ca. 1445–1510), while the tapestry-like screen of pomegranate trees and fruits and the richly patterned brocade fabric recall the latest Gothic phase of Italian art, about 1400.</P>\r\nSaint Cecilia, an early Christian Roman virgin martyr, became the patron saint of music and was portrayed with an organ — here, a portable organ of the fifteenth century. Although water organs existed in the ancient world, pipe organs date from the fourteenth century, so we must assume Cecilia is singing the praises of God in heaven, not during her earthly life. In the window at Christ Church, she is flanked by lancet windows with music-making angels; scenes from the life of a fellow martyr saint, Valerian, and her own martyrdom are shown below. In Chicago, a Saint Cecilia window was included in the stained glass of the Second Presbyterian Church (1904); there, the fabric behind the saint is blue, and the tree bears lemons, demonstrating the permutations that could occur among these windows. </P></SPAN>","remarks":null},{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Provenance","textentryhtml":"David Drey, London; 1974 purchase by Princeton University Art Museum.","remarks":"not vetted"}],"datebegin":1895,"sortnumber":"1974   84y","published_date":"2026-02-11 10:27:21.862003","objectid":32015,"dimensions":"213.5 × 75.5 cm (84 1/16 × 29 3/4 in.)\r\nframe (oak): 234.6 × 88.3 × 4.1 cm (92 3/8 × 34 3/4 × 1 5/8 in.)","on_view":true}