#sir edward burne jones

[mythological-art]

The Mirror of Venus

Artist: Edward Burne-Jones  (English, 1833–1898)

Genre: Mythological Art

Date: 1898-1875

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Collection: Calouste Gulbenkian Museum

A member of the pre-Raphaelite movement that was formed in England in 1848, Sir Edward Burne-Jones became one of the leading figures in a new trend, known as Aestheticism, that emerged in the 1860s. This composition can be seen as an exaltation of ideal beauty, bringing the atmosphere of the painting into alignment with a perspective shared by late Victorian art.

The painter employs minimum of narrative elements, creating a linear arrangement of poetic and oneiric figures clad in pseudo-classical clothing in the manner of a Greek-inspired frieze. Rather than aiming for a formal stylistic resemblance, Burne-Jones seeks to create a general affinity with a Renaissance atmosphere. In a manner clearly suggestive of the Quattrocento, and Botticelli in particular, the work gives precedence to the decorative harmony of the whole and deliberately evokes a sense of nostalgia for the past.

Like The Bath of Venus, which also belongs to the Gulbenkian Collection, the composition derives from an illustration intended for The Hill of Venus, part of William Morris’s poem The Earthly Paradise, which was inspired by the medieval legend of Tannhäuser.

Source: gulbenkian.pt

[galleryofart]

The Mirror of Venus

Artist: Edward Burne-Jones  (English, 1833–1898)

Genre: Mythological Painting

Date: 1898-1875

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Collection: Calouste Gulbenkian Museum

A member of the pre-Raphaelite movement that was formed in England in 1848, Sir Edward Burne-Jones became one of the leading figures in a new trend, known as Aestheticism, that emerged in the 1860s. This composition can be seen as an exaltation of ideal beauty, bringing the atmosphere of the painting into alignment with a perspective shared by late Victorian art.

The painter employs minimum of narrative elements, creating a linear arrangement of poetic and oneiric figures clad in pseudo-classical clothing in the manner of a Greek-inspired frieze. Rather than aiming for a formal stylistic resemblance, Burne-Jones seeks to create a general affinity with a Renaissance atmosphere. In a manner clearly suggestive of the Quattrocento, and Botticelli in particular, the work gives precedence to the decorative harmony of the whole and deliberately evokes a sense of nostalgia for the past.

Like The Bath of Venus, which also belongs to the Gulbenkian Collection, the composition derives from an illustration intended for The Hill of Venus, part of William Morris’s poem The Earthly Paradise, which was inspired by the medieval legend of Tannhäuser.

[diioonysus]

creatures in art: mermaids & sirens

[lionofchaeronea]

The Failure of Sir Gawaine: Sir Gawaine and Sir Uwaine at the Ruined Chapel (Holy Grail Tapestries, #4), woven for Lawrence Hodson of Compton Hall, 1895-96. Overall design and figures by Sir Edward Burne-Jones; overall design and execution by William Morris; flowers and decorative details by John Henry Dearle. Now in the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham, England, UK.

[lepetitdragonvert]

Ariadne

1863/64

Artist : Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones (1833-1898)

[mudwerks]

(via Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones Valentin Serov - portrait of… - all things amazing — LiveJournal)

Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones

Valentin Serov - portrait of Izabella Grunberg

[taliesin-the-bored]

The Burne-Jones agenda: Gawain had an emo phase

[amycvdh]

Desiderium, a study for the masque of cupid by Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones (via adski-kafeteri)

[blogdemocratesjr]

The Arming and Departure of the Knights by Edward Burne-Jones

The Summons by Edward Burne-Jones

"[Lancelot] killed Sir Agrawaine with his first blow, and in a few minutes twelve dead bodies lay around him." Andrew Lang's Tales of the Round Table (1908)

The Book of Sir Lancelot: Lancelot killing Sir Agravain. 15th century manuscript, B.N., Paris

The Royal Navy military transport HMT Sir Agravaine during World War II

[mythological-art]

Cupid's Hunting Fields

Artist: Sir Edward Burne-Jones (English, 1833-1898)

Date: 1885

Medium: Gouache, with watercolor and gold and silver paints on ivory wove paper, laid down on linen canvas

Credit LIne: Robert Alexander Waller Memorial Collection

Collection: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, Bt., A.R.A., R.W.S (British. 1833-1898) The Legend of St George and the Dragon, VI: The Princess Tied to a Tree, 1866

[mysterious-secret-garden]

Sir Edward Burne-Jones, overall design and figures; William Morris, overall design and execution; John Henry Dearle, flowers and decorative details.

The Attainment: The Vision of the Holy Grail to Sir Galahad, Sir Bors, and Sir Perceval (also known as The Achievement of the Grail or The Achievement of Sir Galahad, accompanied by Sir Bors, and Sir Perceval). Number 6 of the Holy Grail tapestries woven by Morris & Co. 1891-94 for Stanmore Hall. This version woven by Morris & Co. for Lawrence Hodson of Compton Hall 1895-96.

[art-allegory]

Evening, The Evening Star, Hesperus, Vesper

Artist: Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones (1833-1898)

Date: 1870

Medium: Watercolour, bodycolour and gum arabic on paper

Collection: Private Collection

The picture has had several names. Burne-Jones called it Vesper in his work-record but exhibited it as Evening. More recently it has been known as Hesperus or The Evening Star. Whatever its title, it belongs to a group of works of the 1870s in which the artist explored the idea of representing cosmic subjects by allegorical figures floating in the night sky.

[twobrothersatwork]

Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones (English, 1833 – 1898) St Barbara, St Dorothy And St Agnes

[flordemurta]

Studies of Hands: stained glass designs for the three-light St. Matthew Window, the east wall south transept Jesus College Chapel, Cambridge, by Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones (1833–1898)

[karrova]

'Justice', Study for a stained glass window in Kolkata Cathedral

Sir Edward Burne-Jones