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Star of Bethlehem (painting)
''The Star of Bethlehem'' is a painting in watercolour by Sir Edward Burne-Jones depicting the Adoration of the Magi with an angel holding the star of Bethlehem. It was commissioned by the Corporation of the City of Birmingham for its new Museum and Art Gallery in 1887,〔Wildman, pp. 293-94〕 two years after Burne-Jones was elected Honorary President of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists. At 101 1/8 x 152 inches, ''The Star of Bethlehem'' was the largest watercolour of the 19th century.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Biography for Sir Edward Burne-Jones, Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery )〕 It was completed in 1890〔It is signed "EBJ 1890" (Wildman, p. 293)〕 and was first exhibited in 1891.
==Origin of the composition==
(詳細はJohn Prideaux Lightfoot had approached William Morris and Burne-Jones to create a tapestry as a gift for their ''alma mater'' Exeter College, Oxford, suggesting the ''Adoration of the Magi'' as a subject.〔 The two quickly agreed. Burne-Jones completed a 26 x 38 inch modello or design in watercolour and bodycolour heightened with gold in 1887. Morris and his assistant John Henry Dearle based the cartoons for the tapestry weavers on Burne-Jones's watercolour, changing the colour scheme and adding background details including the flowering plants characteristic of Dearle's tapestry work. The tapestry was woven by Morris & Co. at Merton Abbey over the next two years and displayed in their London showrooms at Easter 1890 before being presented to Exeter College.〔
The Adoration was ultimately the most commercially successful of all Morris & Co. tapestries. Of the ten versions woven,〔Parry 1996, p. 294〕 one is in Eton College Chapel, one in the Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, one in the Art Gallery of South Australia,〔 and one at Manchester Metropolitan University.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=MMU Special Collections )〕 The original hangs in the Exeter College Chapel.
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