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The Last Pre-Raphaelite
In Fiona MacCarthy’s riveting account, Burne-Jones’s exchange of faith for art places him at the intersection of the nineteenth century and the Modern, as he leads us forward from Victorian mores and attitudes to the psychological, sexual, and artistic audacity that would characterize the early twentieth century.
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Beguiled by a master
In the main gallery are three flat cabinets of books and sketchbooks, including small drawings and caricatures. On the walls are a stimulating variety of images, ranging from a series of studies showing the development of a composition ('Charity'), to stained-glass designs. There's an exquisite pencil drawing for The Song of Solomon and in one corner an intriguing little study for the Second Day in 'The Days of Creation'.
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FAMILY HISTORY ILLUMINATES `MAY AND AMY
[Dimbleby]'s interest was piqued when she was a teenager: She enjoyed looking at a drawing of May, dated 1898, by the Pre- Raphaelite artist [EDWARD BURNE-JONES] and leafing through an old family photograph album. She learned from her father that May had been a friend of Burne-Jones's and that [Amy Gaskell Bonham], the alluring subject of many of the photographs, had died at 35 \"of a broken heart.\" Many years later, Dimbleby, a cookbook author, saw a portrait of Amy by Burne-Jones in the art collection of composer Andrew Lloyd Webber; she recalled that a cousin had told her he possessed a stash of love letters from Burne-Jones to May as well as other family documents. Clearly, a good story was waiting to be discovered. Amy beautiful, moody, remote seems to have stepped right out of a Gothic novel. May called her daughter \"a wonderful mystic creature of wayward charm.\" Amy liked to be photographed in dreamy, romantic poses, and her mind could take morbid turns; she entitled a picture of herself lying in bed \"Self `Dead.' \" Fascinated by Eastern mysticism, as a young married woman Amy ventured alone to Ceylon, Japan, and Korea. At most, Dimbleby can only raise questions about Amy's strange life and death whether she indeed died of a broken heart or was able to love at all is hard to determine.
Newspaper Article
Victorian Secrets
A friend and colleague of [Dante Gabriel Rossetti]'s, the artist [Edward Burne-Jones] also bent his knee at Beauty's altar, embarking upon several long-term, obsessive relationships, and at least one full-blown affair, with the women who modeled for him. Burne-Jones -- arguably a better painter than Rossetti, and certainly a more sympathetic person -- is at the center of Josceline Dimbleby's fine, emotionally detailed May and [Amy, Hal]: A True Story of Family, Forbidden Love, and the Secret Lives of May Gaskell, Her Daughter Amy, and Sir Edward Burne-Jones. Over the decades, Burne-Jones had a series of passionate crushes on soulful young women. May Gaskell was not the first of these, nor was she the model for his greatest paintings. That distinction goes to Maria Cassavetti Zambaco, a beautiful young Greek woman and artist, with whom the married Burne-Jones had an affair, and whose delicate, haunted features he immortalized in paintings such as \"The Beguiling of Merlin.\" Their affair reached its melodramatic climax in 1869, when Zambaco, brandishing a vial of laudanum, vainly tried to enlist her lover in a double suicide pact on the banks of the Regent's Canal. When the horrified Burne-Jones refused, Zambaco threatened to throw herself into the water. The ensuing hubbub alerted neighbors, including [Robert Browning] and Elizabeth Browning, who summoned the police. (The high-strung Burne-Jones fainted.) Burne-Jones seems to have avoided any more sexual entanglements, but he continued to rely heavily upon intense romantic friendships for creative inspiration. One such friendship was with May Gaskell, who in 1892 met him at a party at the painter's home. Burne-Jones was 59, Gaskell two decades younger. The daughter of a petite Irish beauty and a brilliant cleric, at 20 May had married Capt. Henry Gaskell, described by Dimbleby as \"a keen gardener as well as a soldier.\" Any frequent viewer of \"Masterpiece Theater\"-style English dramas might well take those words as a subtle warning.
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