Hotspur🏳️🌈🇺🇦"Cupid's Hunting Fields," Edward Burne-Jones, 1880.
Burne-Jones (1883-98) started off as a Pre-Raphaelite, very much under the sway of founder Dante Gabriel Rossetti, but soon developed his own style, and by the 1870s had been hailed as a guiding star of the new Aesthetic movement, although his feet were planted in both camps. (There was a lot of overlap!)
He worked with designer William Morris, designing tiles, jewelry, mosaics, and tapestries, among other things, and became such an artistic powerhouse that he was made a Baronet...something that revolted Morris, a socialist, as well as Mrs. Burne-Jones, herself a socialist as well. Only Burne-Jones' son, who would inherit the title, seemed excited by it.
This is one of several works on the same theme of a blindfolded Cupid firing his arrows into the world, creating love unexpectedly and randomly. It's on a wood panel, with a relief built up in gesso, and painted over with oils and gold paint. Very impressive!
From the Delaware Museum of Art, Wilmington.
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