BURNE-JONES, Edward
(b. 1833, Birmingham, d. 1898, London)

The Golden Stairs

1876-80
Oil on canvas, 277 x 117 cm
Tate Gallery, London

Burne-Jones creates here a painting with a deliberately ambiguous theme, an enigmatic dream in which figures overtly inspired by the Renaissance are perfectly transposed into a symbolist context.




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