Sleeping Beauty — but without the Kiss: Burne-Jones and the Briar Rose series


Edward Burne-Jones, The Briar Rose (The Briar Rose, The Council Chamber, The Garden Court, and The Rose Bower), c. 1890, oil on canvas (Buscot Park). Speakers: Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker

 

Additional resources:

This series at Buscot Park

Peter Faulkner, “The Briar Rose,” The Journal of William Morris Studies, Winter 2009

Alison Smith, Edward Burne-Jones (Tate Publishing, 2019)

Andrea Wolk Rager, “’Smite this Sleeping World Awake’: Edward Burne-Jones and The Legend of the Briar Rose,” Victorian Studies, vol. 51, no. 3 (Spring 2009), pp. 438-450.

 

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Cite this page as: Dr. Steven Zucker and Dr. Beth Harris, "Sleeping Beauty — but without the Kiss: Burne-Jones and the Briar Rose series," in Smarthistory, April 10, 2019, accessed October 3, 2023, https://smarthistory.org/sleeping-beauty-briar-rose/.