Burne-Jones

In Burne-Jones’s sea-cave, a mermaid drags a man toward death as casually as if it were only a game.

In A. Lys Baldry’s late-nineteenth-century account, Edward Burne-Jones begins far from the artist’s studio: born in Birmingham in 1833, he goes to Oxford on a scholarship, expecting to enter the Church. There, friendship with William Morris awakens an artistic nature he had scarcely known he possessed. First drawn toward the Pre-Raphaelites, Burne-Jones must find a language of his own, drawing on the past without merely copying it—and turn private visions into a distinctive art. Baldry follows the making of that vocation from its unlikely beginnings. What, at Oxford, made a future churchman see his life in an entirely different light?

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