The Mill(Burne-Jones)
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| Artist | Sir Edward Burne-Jones |
| Completion date | 1882 |
| Medium | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 91 cm × 197 cm (36 in × 78 in)[1] |
| Location | Victoria and Albert Museum,London |
The Millis anAesthetic Movement,Renaissance-inspiredoil on canvaspainting completed byEdward Burne-Jonesin 1882. The painting's main feature is three women dancing in front of a mill pond on a summer evening, with a vague wooded landscape spanning the background.The Millis anoil on canvaspainting. It is 91 centimetres (36 in) in height, and 197 centimetres (78 in) in width.[1]
Edward Burne-Jonestook twelve years to completeThe Mill,starting work in 1870[1]and completing it in 1882.[2]Shortly after its completion, the painting was displayed at an exhibition at theGrosvenor Gallery.[3]The Millwas inspired byThe Allegory of Good and Bad Government,amuralpainted byItalian RenaissanceartistAmbrogio Lorenzettibetween 1338 and 1340.[4]The dancing women in the painting were modelled upon women known to Burne-Jones personally: from left to right,Aglaia Coronio,Marie Stillman,andMaria Zambaco.[5]Aglaia was the daughter ofConstantine Ionides,who, like Burne-Jones, was interested in art. Marie was a painter,[3]and Maria was Ionides' granddaughter.[6]At the time, Maria was Burne-Jones'mistress.[3]
The Millis a vague and mysterious painting with no particular meaning.[3]It incorporates styles from theAesthetic Movementand the Renaissance.[6]In the painting, three women wearing simple, Renaissance-styleaestheticdresses[3]are dancing in a garden on a summer evening. On the right of the dancing women, a musician of an indiscernible gender is standing under aloggia.[1][6]Amill pondcan be seen behind the women.[6]On the other side of the pond, there are several nude men, who are presumably swimming. In the background is an unspecific landscape consisting of various designs and types of architecture.[1]
Ownership[edit]
Constantine Ionides bought the painting on 21 April 1882 for£905.[6]It is now in theVictoria and Albert Museum,in London.[2]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^abcdePatrick Bade (22 December 2011).Burne-Jones.Parkstone International. pp. 33, 36.ISBN978-1-78042-414-9.
- ^ab"Study of a Dancing Woman for 'The Mill' c.1870–82".tate.org.uk.Retrieved22 February2015.
- ^abcdeKimberly Wahl (2013).Dressed As in a Painting: Women and British Aestheticism in an Age of Reform.UPNE. p. 84.ISBN978-1-61168-415-5.
- ^"Portrait of Marie Spartali, Mrs W. J. Stillman (England, c.1880)".leicestergalleries.Retrieved22 February2015.
- ^The Last Pre-Raphaelite: Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian Imagination.Harvard University Press. 5 March 2012. pp. 203–204.ISBN9780674065796.
- ^abcde"The Mill: Girls Dancing to Music by a River".collections.vam.ac.uk.Retrieved25 February2015.
Further reading[edit]
- Wildman, S (1998).Edward Burne-Jones, Victorian artist-dreamer.New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.