Oil paint on canvas
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Love and Pilgrim
Presented by the Art Fund 1942
actions: expressive
adults
angel
animals: birds
arrow
bramble
Chaucer, Geoffrey, ‘The Romaunt of the Rose’
cloak
clothing and personal items
emotional states and conditions
holding hands
landscape
literature (not Shakespeare)
literature and fiction
love - angel
man
nightingale
objects
people
pilgrimage
plants and flowers
pool
religion and belief
religious
religious and ceremonial
rocky
symbols and personifications
universal religious imagery
water: inland
weapons
work and occupations
wreath
<p>This painting was the last major work that Burne-Jones completed. It was dedicated to his close friend, the poet Algernon Swinburne. The idea of the God of Love guiding a Pilgrim on his quest comes from <span>The Romaunt of the Rose </span>by the medieval poet Geoffrey Chaucer, a book that Burne-Jones had read while a student at Oxford and which influenced many of the works he produced in collaboration with William Morris. Love is presented both as a Christian angel and as Cupid, the classical god of love.</p><p><em>Gallery label, November 2016</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
24 October 2001 – 11 July 2005
2005-07-11
24 October 2001
2001-10-24
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2001-10-24
Making British History
Collection based display
24 October 2009 – 25 July 2010
2010-07-25
24 October 2009 – 7 February 2010
2010-02-07
2009-10-24
Staatsgalerie (Stuttgart, Germany)
http://www.staatsgalerie.de/
1 March 2010 – 25 July 2010
2010-07-25
2010-03-01
Kunstmuseum Bern (Bern, Switzerland)
2009-10-24
Edward Burne-Jones: The Earthly Paradise
Loan-out
12 September 2012 – 31 January 2014
2014-01-31
10 June 2013 – 22 September 2013
2013-09-22
2013-06-10
State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts (Moscow, Russia)
25 January 2014 – 6 April 2014
2014-04-06
2014-01-25
Mori Arts Centre (Tokyo, Japan)
19 April 2014 – 13 July 2014
2014-07-13
2014-04-19
Palazzo Chiablese (Turin, Italy)
2012-09-12
Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Avant-Garde
Exhibition
17 February 2013 – 31 August 2014
2014-08-31
10 June 2013 – 13 October 2013
2013-10-13
2013-06-10
State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts (Moscow, Russia)
25 January 2014 – 6 April 2014
2014-04-06
2014-01-25
Mori Arts Centre (Tokyo, Japan)
19 April 2014 – 13 July 2014
2014-07-13
2014-04-19
Palazzo Chiablese (Turin, Italy)
2013-02-17
Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Avant-Garde
Loan-out
24 October 2018 – 24 February 2019
2019-02-24
24 October 2018 – 24 February 2019
2019-02-24
2018-10-24
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2018-10-24
Edward Burne-Jones
Exhibition
14 September 2019 – 31 May 2020
2020-05-31
14 September 2019 – 26 January 2020
2020-01-26
2019-09-14
Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde (Stockholm, Sweden)
http://www.waldermarsudde.com
21 February 2020 – 31 May 2020
2020-05-31
2020-02-21
KODE Art Museums and Composer Homes (Bergen, Norway)
2019-09-14
Edward Burne-Jones: The Pre-Raphaelites and the North
Loan-out
8 June 2021 – 14 January 2024
2024-01-14
12 July 2023 – 2 October 2023
2023-10-02
2023-07-12
National Art Center (Tokyo, Japan)
26 October 2023 – 14 January 2024
2024-01-14
2023-10-26
Nakanoshima Museum of Art (Osaka, Japan)
2021-06-08
Light
Tate partnerships & programmes
Love and the Pilgrim
support: 1575 × 3048 mm
frame: 2213 × 3697 × 180 mm
Presented by the <a href="/search?gid=999999968" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Art Fund</a> 1942
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<p>This painting was the last major work that Burne-Jones completed. It was dedicated to his close friend, the poet Algernon Swinburne. The idea of the God of Love guiding a Pilgrim on his quest comes from <i>The Romaunt of the Rose </i>by the medieval poet Geoffrey Chaucer, a book that Burne-Jones had read while a student at Oxford and which influenced many of the works he produced in collaboration with William Morris. Love is presented both as a Christian angel and as Cupid, the classical god of love.</p>
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actions: expressive adults angel animals: birds arrow bramble Chaucer, Geoffrey, ‘The Romaunt of the Rose’ cloak clothing and personal items emotional states and conditions holding hands landscape literature and fiction literature (not Shakespeare) love - angel man nightingale objects people pilgrimage plants and flowers pool religion and belief religious religious and ceremonial rocky symbols and personifications universal religious imagery water: inland weapons work and occupations wreath