Fitzwilliam work list 1865: red chalk design of the Hours began the Fates While at Oxford as a student, it is more than likely that Burne-Jones was aware of Filipino Lippi's Sibyls which the Christ Church Museum had acquired in 1828. This was one probable source for the first version of The Hours. His subsequent visits to Italy in 1859 and 1862, facilitated periods of intense study of Italian painting, which included the frescoes of the Palazzo Pubblico, Siena. The Allegory of Good and Bad Government by Ambrogio Lorenzetti in the in the Sala dei Nove, contains a sequence of seated female figures, one of which holds an hourglass which was the origin of a drawing Burne-Jones produced for an illustration for Ruskin, thus confirming his knowledge of Lorenzetti's fresco. The Hours became a major painting that was completed in 1883 and it had preoccupied him periodically in the intervening years as the studies made c.1869 show. The third figure from the right squeezing grapes into a cup, resembles Maria Zambaco.
