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The Star of Bethlehem
Original price was: $518.00.$259.00Current price is: $259.00.
Artist: Edward Burne-Jones
A hand-painted oil reproduction of The Star of Bethlehem by Edward Burne-Jones, worked at scale to bring the depth and stillness of the original into your own room.
Description
Description
Stand before The Star of Bethlehem and the first thing you notice is its sheer physical presence. This is a large watercolour composition, conceived by Burne-Jones on a scale closer to a mural than to an easel picture, so that the figures approach life size and a viewer standing at a normal distance is drawn into the same ground the Magi occupy. That scale is not incidental; it governs how the eye moves across the picture, from the winged angel at the centre out to the kneeling kings and the huddled attendants at the edges, and it asks to be met at close range rather than glanced at from across a room.
About Star of Bethlehem
The subject is the adoration of the Magi, but Burne-Jones treats the familiar story with a stillness that owes more to Botticelli and to early Sienese painting than to conventional Victorian narrative art. The angel bearing the star fills the upper half of the composition, robes falling in long, deliberate folds, while the three kings kneel below in postures of careful, almost ceremonial weight. Colour is handled in cool blues, muted golds, and dense greens, built up in the layered, jewel-like manner that Burne-Jones favoured throughout his maturity, so that light seems to come from within the pigment rather than falling on it from outside. This painting belongs to the final, most ambitious phase of his career, when he was working at the scale and seriousness he had long wanted for his Pre-Raphaelite subjects, and it shows a painter still refining the balance between pattern and feeling.
ByMuseum recreates this composition as a hand-painted oil painting reproduction, worked by a trained artist directly onto canvas rather than printed or transferred. The palette is matched passage by passage against the original, the folds of drapery and the layered greens of the background rebuilt in real oil so that brushwork and surface texture remain visible under raking light, the way they would on any painted object. It is a slower, more deliberate way of bringing the image into a room, and it is why the surface rewards close looking rather than a single glance.
The hand-painted reproduction
Live with this piece for a while and it keeps giving you something new. Details that seem quiet at first, the tilt of a head, the pattern worked into a robe, the particular blue chosen for the sky, begin to stand out on repeated viewing, and the painting settles into a room the way a genuinely famous painting earns its place on a wall rather than simply filling one.
- Hand-painted reproduction in oil on artist-grade canvas
- Available in multiple sizes to suit your wall
- Arrives gallery-ready for immediate display
- Certificate of authenticity included with every order
- Free worldwide shipping, with no charge to any country
PRODUCT INFORMATION
Each ByMuseum artwork is a hand-painted oil painting reproduction created by trained artists on high-quality cotton canvas. Every piece is reviewed, finished, and packed according to the framing option you select.
Empty walls flatten a room. A classical artwork restores structure and visual hierarchy. One painting defines the space, anchors furniture, and establishes identity.
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Unframed — Rolled in Tube
Your artwork is painted on premium cotton canvas, then shipped safely rolled in a rigid tube with extra blank canvas border — ready for stretching or framing locally.
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Gallery Wrap
Gallery Wrap is a deeper, 1.5" style stretcher. The canvas wraps around the sides and is stapled on the back for a clean, modern, frameless look.
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