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"The Summer Snow," Edward Burne-Jones, 1864.

Burne-Jones (1833-98) was one of the great artists of the Pre-Raphaelite and Aesthetic schools. While enormously popular in his day (leading to him being granted a baronetcy), he was largely neglected and forgotten after his death, until he was rediscovered in the mid-20th century and now is popular again.

Jane Burden (1839-1914), pictured here, came from poverty but was spotted by Burne-Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, who were both struck by her beauty. She modeled for both, appearing in a number of Pre-Raphaelite paintings. She eventually married William Morris, the great designer, and became a noted embroiderer and designer herself....although all her designs were credited to him. Typical.

Her private life was something of a soap opera as well. Apparently her marriage to Morris was mostly a business arrangement; she managed his successful design business, had dalliances with Rossetti and poet Wilfrid Blunt, and in the end the lady born in poverty was able to purchase a manor house to secure her daughters' futures.

Happy Portrait Monday!

From the Royal Academy of Arts, London.

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"Cupid's Hunting Fields," Edward Burne-Jones, 1880.

Burne-Jones (1883-98) started off as a Pre-Raphaelite, very much under the sway of founder Dante Gabriel Rossetti, but soon developed his own style, and by the 1870s had been hailed as a guiding star of the new Aesthetic movement, although his feet were planted in both camps. (There was a lot of overlap!)

He worked with designer William Morris, designing tiles, jewelry, mosaics, and tapestries, among other things, and became such an artistic powerhouse that he was made a Baronet...something that revolted Morris, a socialist, as well as Mrs. Burne-Jones, herself a socialist as well. Only Burne-Jones' son, who would inherit the title, seemed excited by it.

This is one of several works on the same theme of a blindfolded Cupid firing his arrows into the world, creating love unexpectedly and randomly. It's on a wood panel, with a relief built up in gesso, and painted over with oils and gold paint. Very impressive!

From the Delaware Museum of Art, Wilmington.

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"The Rose Bower," Edward Burne-Jones, 1890.

Burne-Jones (1833-98) was a great British painter as well as being a designer of tiles, jewelry, mosaics, and stained-glass windows. Although heavily influenced by the Pre-Raphaelites, he was considered a star of the Aesthetic movement as well, and modern fans regard him as having a foot in both camps.

Aestheticism believed that art should be simply an object of beauty, rather than preaching a lesson or telling a story. Pre-Raphaelites were all about bringing back intense detail and colors that existed in Renaissance art, which the Aesthetes loved, but they could be preachy and didactic in their art. (See Hunt's painting "The Awakening Conscience" which today is seen as almost comical.) Burne-Jones and his friend William Morris believed in creating beautiful objects, but also in bringing beauty to everyday items like wallpaper and woodwork.

This is part of a series called "The Legend of Briar Rose" which we know as Sleeping Beauty. Here we have the princess sleeping with her attendants in her castle...while the roses continue to creep in. It's one of a number of paintings depicting the inhabitants of the castle asleep while the roses grow around them.

From Buscot Park, Oxfordshire, UK.

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English Pre-Raphaelite painter and designer Edward Burne-Jones was #BOTD in 1833. ⁠

The exterior of this magnificent wardrobe, painted by Burne-Jones, is decorated with scenes from The Prioress’s Tale, one of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. It incorporates a dedication to his friend William Morris and repeated portraits of Jane Burden, the future Mrs Morris, as the Virgin Mary.

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"When Adam Delved and Eve span, who was then the gentleman?"

Peasants' Revolt preacher John Ball asked this rhetorical question in 1381. William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones illustrated it in 1892.

In a supposedly meritocratic UK, where "traditional" networks of inherited wealth and privilege continue to sustain inequality and exploitation, Ball's question is still worth asking.

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https://victorianweb.org/art/design/morris/4.html

Thomas M Rooke (1842-1942), who worked for both #JohnRuskin and #EdwardBurneJones, produced this impression of #AlbertGate in 1868 - executed in pencil, pen, ink and #watercolour.

Edward Burne-Jones, Pan and Psyche, 1872-1874 #museumarchive #edwardburnejones https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/230444

Edward Burne-Jones, Danaë Watching the Building of the Brazen Tower, 1872 #edwardburnejones #harvardartmuseums https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/230455

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Love Among the Ruins

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