Edward Burne-Jones's Chaucer Portraits in the Kelmscott Chaucer
- Author / Editor
- Richmond, Velma Bourgeois.
Edward Burne-Jones's Chaucer Portraits in the Kelmscott Chaucer
- Published
- Chaucer Review 40 (2005): 1-38.
- Description
- The thirty-one portraits in the Kelmscott Chaucer show Burne-Jones's development as a painter and his identification with Chaucer as an artist. Burne-Jones represents Chaucer as a tall and slender man, similar to his own self-portraits. The emotions he captures in Chaucer--happy to melancholy to almost deathlike--roughly parallel events in the artist's own life and reflect changes in his own philosophy, as well as tensions in late-Victorian England.
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