Tuesday, October 21, 2008

The Romantic Dream

“I mean by a picture, a beautiful romantic dream of something that never was, never will be—in a better light than any light that ever shone—in a land no one can define or remember, only desire—and the forms are divinely beautiful.”
The quote is from Sir Edward Burne-Jones. His painting "Love Among the Ruins" (1894) is in the collection of the Wightwick Manor in Wolverhampton, link.

2 comments:

r8r said...

I wish he could have illustrated the books by E R Eddison...

Erik Bongers said...

I see he used the pre-raphaelite model Jane Burden Morris