The Briar Rose series

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The Briar Rose series is a celebrated set of Pre-Raphaelite paintings by Edward Burne-Jones that reinterprets the Sleeping Beauty fairy tale with richly detailed, dreamlike imagery.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf artwork
painting series
artHistoricalSignificance important example of late Pre-Raphaelite painting
major work of Edward Burne-Jones
artStyle highly detailed
romantic
symbolic
basedOn Briar Rose fairy tale
Sleeping Beauty
colorPalette rich
saturated
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
creator Edward Burne-Jones
depictionStyle decorative composition
flattened picture plane
idealized figures
depicts castle
knights
overgrown roses
princess
rose thorns
sleeping figures
genre history painting
influencedBy Arthurian and chivalric imagery
medieval romance literature
mainSubject Sleeping Beauty
enchanted sleep
fairy tale
movement Pre-Raphaelite art
surface form: Pre-Raphaelite
narrativeSequence continuous
narrativeSource European folk tale tradition
notableWork The Briar Wood
The Council Chamber
The Garden Court
The Rose Bower
theme beauty
destiny
dreamlike atmosphere
enchanted sleep
fate
romantic medievalism
stillness
suspended time
visualCharacteristic decorative detail
dense foliage
elaborate drapery
ornate patterning

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Edward Burne-Jones notableWork The Briar Rose series