"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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Golden Lion Tamarin

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In Greek mythology, the golden fruit of the goddess Hera grows in the Garden of the Hesperides. Though this fruit is usually envisioned as apples, some people have theorized they're actually oranges. Thus, the Greek botanical name for all citrus is "hesperidoeidē."
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"The Rose Bower," Edward Burne-Jones, 1890.

Burne-Jones (1833-98) was a great British painter as well as being a designer of tiles, jewelry, mosaics, and stained-glass windows. Although heavily influenced by the Pre-Raphaelites, he was considered a star of the Aesthetic movement as well, and modern fans regard him as having a foot in both camps.

Aestheticism believed that art should be simply an object of beauty, rather than preaching a lesson or telling a story. Pre-Raphaelites were all about bringing back intense detail and colors that existed in Renaissance art, which the Aesthetes loved, but they could be preachy and didactic in their art. (See Hunt's painting "The Awakening Conscience" which today is seen as almost comical.) Burne-Jones and his friend William Morris believed in creating beautiful objects, but also in bringing beauty to everyday items like wallpaper and woodwork.

This is part of a series called "The Legend of Briar Rose" which we know as Sleeping Beauty. Here we have the princess sleeping with her attendants in her castle...while the roses continue to creep in. It's one of a number of paintings depicting the inhabitants of the castle asleep while the roses grow around them.

From Buscot Park, Oxfordshire, UK.

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The Lincoln Memorial (Washington D.C.)

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AI girl by EventHorizonPictoXL

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Six of Cups

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  Evelyn De Morgan

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