Saturday, May 7, 2011

Edward Burne-Jones (August 28, 1833 – June 17, 1898)

                                                                                                                 
Pan and Psyche
1872-1874

It is perhaps a wrongheaded approach to evaluating Pre-Raphaelites, but I always seem to judge the artists by how they represent women in their works. Obviously these paintings are for more than just their female characters, but those characters are so representational to me of the romantic concept of England that I cannot divorce myself from this approach. And Burne-Jones was able to translate that sort of beautiful English  romanticism into subjects not only Arthurian, but Greco-Roman, more beautifully,  I would wager, than most of his contemporaries. 

Lancelot at the Chapel of the Holy Grail
1896

The Annunciation
1876-1879

The Baleful Head
1886-1887

King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid
1883

The Birth of Pegasus and Chrysaor from the Blood of Medusa
1876-1885

The Wheel of Fortune
1888

The Perseus Series: The Doom Fulfilled
1884-1885

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