Artist: Edward Coley Burne-Jones
Style: Pre-Raphaelites;Italian Renaissance
Topic: Figures Men Mirrors Virgin Gods Women
Date: 1898
Size: 121 x 200 cm
Museum: Gulbenkian Foundation (Lisbon, Portugal)
Technique: Oil On Canvas;Canvas;Oil
The scene is purely imaginary, and shows Venus and her maidens gazing at their reflections in a pool of water. The landscape is arid and rocky; these strangely lunar landscapes were to become a recurring feature of his art, widely imitated by his followers. The mood and the colour are Pre-Raphaelite, but the conscious sweetness and elegance of the figures recall the Italian Renaissance, and, in particular, Botticelli, an artist greatly admired by Burne-Jones, and later to become a cult among fashionable aesthetes. The conception is purely aesthetic — a ring of beautiful girls in lovely draperies, with a minimum of narrative of historical content. The draperies are pseudo-classical, and the title is Venus, but the picture could equally have been given a vague allegorical title. Through the faces of the girls and their wistful expressions Burne-Jones conveys that feeling of intense sadness and nostalgia for the past.
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