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Detail. 1860. Oil on panel. Private Collection. Back to Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones's Page Home Artist Index Country Index. The Mirror of Venus by Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, Bt ARA. The Mirror of Venus by Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, Bt ARA. 1898. Oil on canvas, 47 1/2 x 78 3/4 inches. Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon. According to Christopher wood, "No picture illustrates better Burne-Jones's unique genius for blending together the two traditions of Pre-Raphaelitism and the Italian Renaissance into a new aesthetic style than The Mirror of Venus. 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.
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