Spirit Of Sleep

Burne-Jones is one of Victorian England ’s most famous painters, the Pre-Raphaeliterepresentatives. He created many works throughout his lifetime, mostly drawn from theworks of medieval literature love theme. Courtly Love as the most classic form of love inmedieval literature is an important Artistic expression in Burne-Jones’ works. The purposeof this paper is to explore Burne-Jones’ depth interpretation of Courtly Love by means ofanalyzing the theme and creative process of Burne-Jones’ artistic creation.The Preface section describes research status of Burne-Jones and some Inspiration forthis article. The first chapter introduces the " courtly love," its source, later research process,and focusing on Lacan’s’courtly love’ interpretation. The second chapter focuses on thetheme of Victorian gender relations and love theme painting. The third chapter is aboutArtistic expression of Courtly Love in Burne-Jones’ works. First, he usually use flowers,music, etc. symbolic language to express the theme text, and then the article focuses on theCourtly Love characteristics, such as: the ideal image of women, Women-centered, Spiritualromance. The next chapter is on Burne-Jones’ interpretation of the works of Courtly love.Courtly Love lead sublimation and infusion of chivalry; Courtly Love works show the artist’sexploration of the spiritual world. Burne-Jones’ Courtly Love works with a strong negativecolor, languid knight, weakness and apathy lady demonstrated painter’s negative attitude ofCourtly Love. The final chapter discusses the effects and limitation of Burne-Jones’ Courtlylove theme creation. The effects is on three aspects: on the Pre-Raphaelite, on the painter offuture generations, on other areas. Finally, the article briefly concludes its limitations ofreality.