Insomnia by Marina Benjamin

Author:Marina Benjamin
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: BIO026000, PHI000000, HEA043000
Publisher: Scribe Publications
Published: 2018-10-28T16:00:00+00:00

But perhaps I am running ahead of myself, given that the organ that was sleeping in the fair princess was not her brain but her heart.

Buscot Park, in Oxfordshire, lies eighty-five miles northwest of London. Dominated by a handsome grey-stone manor house set on a rise amid sweeping Italianate gardens, the estate, belonging to Lord Faringdon, is now partly in the care of the National Trust. Here, in an eclectic saloon too ornate for my tastes (Empire furniture, Murano chandelier, gilt-edged wall panels), hangs a series of four monumental paintings that narrate the story of ‘Little Briar Rose’. They are the work — arguably the life work, since their subject preoccupied him for close on forty years — of the Late Pre-Raphaelite painter Edward Burne-Jones. When first exhibited in London, in 1890, at Agnew & Sons in Bond Street then at Toynbee Hall, the paintings caused a sensation. Visitors mesmerised by their luminous colour, rich with forest greens, royal reds, and lapis blue, fell to gasping. Spellbound by seductive compositional lines that arc across the panels in languorous arabesques and lead the eye on through twisting briars and the folding drapes of the council room arras to the curtained bower where the princess slumbers, they swooned. The actress Ellen Terry was, for her part, reduced to tears.

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