#burne-jones

[heaveninawildflower]

'St Ursula' (1868) by Edward Burne-Jones (d.1898).

Cartoon for stained glass at St John the Baptist Church, Tuebrook, Liverpool.

Birmingham Museums Trust, licensed under CC0.

[taliesin-the-bored]

The Burne-Jones agenda: Gawain had an emo phase

[artschoolglasses]

The Sleeping Beauty, Edward Burne-Jones, 1871

[nununiverse]

attributed to Thomas Rooke (Burne-Jones’ assistant), after Edward Burne-Jones, Design for Christ Enthroned in the Heavenly Jerusalem, in the American Church in Rome

[rehsgalleries]

Sir Edward Burne-Jones

(1833–1898)

The Love Song

Oil on canvas

45 x 61 3/8 inches

Signed

Metropolitan Museum of Art

[manmetaphysical]

Five years ago I was inspired to write about Edward Burne-Jones, a Virgo, born August 28th 1833. I was in Japan at the time, and there he is very much appreciated. The taste for Burne-Jones’s style dwindled in the 20th century, but came back to life in the seventies with the growth of books on astrology and the occult, and the selling of posters for people in bedsits. The style is associated with anti industrialism, harping back with nostalgia to a simpler world in which purity and integrity have not been tained by the corruption of the world.

Burne-Jones had a vision he shared with some of the Pre-Raphaelites which was that of a medieval idyll containing elegant but slightly adrogynous youthful figures drawn from fairytales and myths. The woods and forests are dark and foreboding and even stylised, but the landscape in his paintings creates a magical backdrop for the figures and stories presented. These figures even though drawn from actual models in real life all looked similar and lacking any indivuduality because they represent archeytpes of the soul- in fact they could all be Psyche on her way through her trials and tribulations. But also he represents Vesta with intense concentration on his ideal goal. You can check where these asteroids are in your chart.

What brought Burne Jones back to mind was Mercury going direct on August 28th at 21° Leo - Burne-Jone’s Mercury is at 25° of Leo and Mercury will arrive at that point on the 6th September. Also, that recently I was at the Tate Britain and saw this frieze of ‘Eight Women Gathering Apples’ which I’d not seen before. It is a large and impressive in colour range, using ceramic paint that gives it a glossy finish. Perhaps 8 is significant because of 8 phases of the Moon- he was aware of planetary symbolism as my article outlines. See the gallery.

But above all it is his anniversary which is now approaching 200 years since his birth. So Burne-Jones is worth celebrating as the ultimate Virgo, deep into his research, intensely concentrated on detail, technically proficient and his work stands the test of time and portrays a world we may have lost. By looking again at his paintings and admiring this technical precision and industriousness we can reconnect with the mystery of that ideal world and bring it closer.

I'll post the full article in the next post.

[a-little-bit-pre-raphaelite]

detail Augusta Jones, Edward Burne-Jones (1833-1898)

[diioonysus]

creatures in art: mermaids & sirens

[weirdlookindog]

Edward Burne-Jones (1833–1898) - “Black Arch Angel (Satan Enthroned)”

watercolour and bodycolour, touched with gold, n.d.

[h0dge-p0dge]

i made another

I didn't know there was a tags limit LMAOSOA

[classicalcanvas]

Edward Burne-Jones (1833 - 1898)

[the-evil-clergyman]

Cupid's Hunting Fields by Edward Burne-Jones (1885)

[venustapolis]

The Dream of Launcelot at the Chapel of the San Graal (Edward Burne-Jones, 1896)

[iz1331]

Beetlejuice and Beetlejuice Beetlejuice casts both original and sequel (gonna wait for another one with Willem, Monica, and Adrian if there's gonna be on set)

[aw-shit-my-ulna]

100% believe this is what they got up to in the Hub when the rift was slow

[constanzarte]

Edward Burne-Jones, studios