{"id":2292,"date":"2019-05-02T06:20:05","date_gmt":"2019-05-02T06:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/westnorfolkartists.org\/blog\/?p=2292"},"modified":"2025-02-14T18:42:38","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T18:42:38","slug":"visit-to-edward-burne-jones-exhibition-at-tate-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westnorfolkartists.org\/blog\/2019\/05\/visit-to-edward-burne-jones-exhibition-at-tate-britain\/","title":{"rendered":"Visit to Edward Burne-Jones Exhibition at Tate Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Classed as a Pre-Raphaelite visionary Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones (1833 – 1898) was a key figure in Victorian art and achieved world wide fame and recognition during his lifetime. This was the first major retrospective of his to be held in London for over forty years.<\/p>\n

Burne-Jones used myths and legends from the past and created dream worlds of unparalleled beauty – \u2018The Briar Rose Series\u2019 (based on Sleeping Beauty), \u2018The Beguiling of Merlin\u2019, \u2018The last sleep of Arthur\u2019 and \u2018The Perseus Series\u2019 to name just a few.<\/p>\n

From his studio in Fulham he designed and made artworks in a variety of media – paintings, drawings, stained glass, embroidery, tapestry, furniture and jewellery and many of these were on display including a beautifully painted piano.<\/p>\n

Burne-Jones was educated at University rather than art school and went to Oxford to study theology which is where he met his lifelong friend and collaborator, William Morris. He decided to abandon his studies and under the guidance of the artist-poet, Dante Gabriel Rosetti, he
\nstarted to make intricate drawings in pen and ink which won him the support of artists and patrons in the Pre-Raphaelite circle.<\/p>\n\n\t\t