England to report officially to King Ludwig on the Manchester art treasures. So diversified were his gifts that he turned his hand to church windows and joined his old friend Schnorr in designs for the painted glass in Glasgow Cathedral. Towards the close of his career, with broken health and his powers on the wane, he revisited Vienna. During this time, he created the cycle from the legend of Melusine and the designs commemorative of chief musicians which decorate the foyer of the Vienna State Opera. Cornelius writes, "You have translated the joy of music into pictorial art." Selected paintings See also Romanticism Peter von Cornelius Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Notes References External links German masters of the nineteenth century: paintings and drawings from the Federal Republic of Germany, a full text exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which contains material on Moritz von Schwind (no. 79-82) Moritz von Schwind's birth house in Vienna 1804 births 1871 deaths Artists from Vienna 19th-century Austrian people 19th-century Austrian painters 19th-century Austrian male artists Austrian male painters Austrian romantic painters Austrian untitled nobility Burials at the Alter Südfriedhof Romantic painters