Edward Burne-Jones - The Golden Stairs
As one of the most beautiful paintings in Edward Burne-Jones’s entire career, “The Golden Stairs” is also by far the most curious.
A narrative painting with no real narrative . . . it has no traceable link to the literature or mythology that so often informed Edwards other great works.
Yet even on just a single glance, we feel a sense that something very…
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