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The Arming of Perseus
Original price was: $518.00.$259.00Current price is: $259.00.
Artist: Edward Burne-Jones
The Arming of Perseus by Burne-Jones, recreated as a hand-painted oil reproduction with matched palette and true impasto texture for a serious collection.
Description
Description
Two figures stand close together at the centre of the panel, one presenting armour to the other in a moment poised between ritual and intimacy, while a hush of grey-green light settles over the surrounding architecture. The composition holds the eye on this small exchange of hands and gaze before letting it drift outward to the carved stonework and muted drapery that frame the scene, so that the painting reads first as a quiet human moment and only afterward as myth.
About Arming of Perseus
This is one of a sequence Edward Burne-Jones devoted to the Perseus legend, painted during the years when his work had turned decisively away from anecdote toward a slower, more ceremonial kind of picture-making. The elongated figures, the flattened sense of space, and the restrained palette of bronze, sage, and ivory all belong to this later phase, in which Burne-Jones drew on early Renaissance painting and on the example of Botticelli to build images that feel suspended rather than narrated. Light in the painting does not fall dramatically from a single source; instead it seems to rise evenly from the surfaces themselves, giving the armour a dull metallic glow and the skin a marble coolness.
The handling throughout favours long, deliberate contours over loose brushwork, with modelling built up through fine tonal gradation rather than visible dash or flourish, a technique consistent with the artist habit of working from careful preparatory drawings. Figures are arranged almost in relief against the picture plane, an effect that owes something to his years designing for stained glass and tapestry alongside William Morris. The result is a stillness that feels considered rather than static, each fold of cloth and plane of armour placed with evident deliberation.
The hand-painted reproduction
ByMuseum recreates this painting as a fine art reproduction built entirely by hand, with a trained artist working in oil on artist-grade canvas to match the original palette stroke by stroke rather than reproducing it mechanically. The cool bronzes and soft ivories are mixed and layered as Burne-Jones himself would have layered them, and the brush retains the freedom to leave its own trace, so the surface carries genuine impasto and the texture of woven canvas beneath the paint. This oil painting reproduction is a painted object in the fullest sense, built up in successive sittings until the tonal depth of the original is recovered in real pigment rather than approximated by print.
- Hand-painted in oil on artist-grade canvas
- Available in multiple sizes to suit your wall
- Arrives gallery-ready for immediate display
- Includes a certificate of authenticity
- Free worldwide shipping, with no shipping charge to any country
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