Perhaps rightly, Kosovo's quarrelsome leaders are complaining that the western world gave the green light, if only through its silence, for Mr Milosevic's onslaught.
These and other works exemplify the expressive qualities of Pre-Raphaelite art brought to their zenith in Burne-Jones's Arthurian paintings and tapestries: the dreamlike sense of dim recollections viewed behind closed eyes, of erotic yearning conveyed through powerful silence.