Edward BURNE-JONES English 1833–1898 The garden of Pan c.1886 oil on canvas 152.5 x 186.9 cm Felton Bequest 1919 961-3		Pan is usually, but not exclusively, portrayed as a half-man half-goat whose chief role was that of a shepherd of the Arcadian flocks. His further responsibility was to see that their numbers multiplied, so he is also associated with fertility. He appears—albeit briefly—in the legends of Homer, Plato and Aeschylus, who tell not just of Pan's amorous adventures but also of his part in the relationships of others. Burne-Jones has not illustrated a specific legend but portrayed a generalised symbolic and somewhat humorous scene of two lovers in an idyllic Arcadian landscape. When first exhibited, The garden of Pan was highly praised as Burne-Jones' finest work, no doubt due to the fully-worked landscape rendered in exquisite detail and the figures being appreciated as the very model of ideal beauty. Burne-Jones was a key follower of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (PRB), a group of artists whose admiration of Early Renaissance art led them to reject the idea of beauty as defined by High Renaissance artists such as Raphael and Michelangelo. Burne-Jones was a leader of the second generation PRB artists, and he developed their use of muted tones in his paintings and drew classically proportioned figures.
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