This volume studies some of Edward Burne-Jones's paintings, focusing specifically on his approach to nature, both through his observations about the real, physical world and through his symbolic interpretations of earthly and celestial realms. Burne-Jones's appreciation for natural formations grew from his interests in astronomy and geography, and was expanded by his aesthetic sensibility for physical and metaphysical beauty. His drawings and watercolors carefully recorded the physical world he saw around him. These studies provided the background for a collection of paintings about landscapes with flora and fauna, and ignited an artistic furor that inspired the imagery he used in his allegorical, fantasy, and dream cycles about forests, winding paths, and sweet briar roses. This study focuses on two main ideas: Burne-Jones's concept of ideal and artificial or magical nature expressed and represented in his drawings and paintings, and the way in which he fused his scientific knowledge about nature with some of the symbolism in his paintings.
Liana De Girolami Cheney, PhD, is presently a Visiting Scholar in Art History at the Università di Aldo Moro, Italy, and SIELAE Investigadora de Historia de Arte at the Universidad de Coruña, Spain. She is an Emerita Professor of Art History and Chairperson of the Department of Cultural Studies at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. She received her MA in History of Art and Aesthetics from the University of Miami, and her PhD in Italian Renaissance and Baroque Art from Boston University. Cheney is a Renaissance, Mannerism, and Pre-Raphaelite scholar, and has authored and co-authored numerous articles and books, including Botticelli's Neoplatonic Images; Giorgio Vasari's Artistic and Emblematic Manifestations; Giorgio Vasari's Teachers: Sacred and Profane Art; Agnolo Bronzino: The Florentine Muse; Self-Portraits of Women Painters; Lavinia Fontana's Mythological Paintings; James Abbott McNeill Whistler and His Birthplace; Pre-Raphaelitism and Medievalism in the Arts; and Edward Burne-Jones's Mythical Paintings, among others.
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