Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones

pre-raphaelite

Burne-Jones Paintings 1833 - 1898 Painter,Illustrator,England,Pre-Raphaelite

The Perseus Series: The Doom Fulfilled, 1884-1885

Oil on canvas, 153.8 x 138.4 cm.

Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton

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OIL PAINTING: The Perseus Series: The Doom Fulfilled, 1884-1885
Burne-Jones is the most important and the best painter of the second wave of Pre-Raphaelites. A poetic young man from Birmingham who, like Morris, was preparing for a career in the church, Burne-Jones never had any academic art training and consequently developed his own very distinctive approach, using medieval models as his template but invigorating them with a completely fresh and modern look. This painting of Burne Jones describes it best -''The Perseus Series: The Doom Fulfilled''