Accompanying a major exhibition of Burne-Jones's work at Tate Britain, this book looks at what was distinctive about Burne-Jones's art, and charts the course through which he emerged from being an outsider, to being revered as one of the great artists of the European fin de siecle
Burne-Jones, the Pre-Raphaelite painter and leader of the Aesthetic Movement is celebrated in this biographical, art and reference title that reproduces many of his works.
Penelope Fitzgerald, the Booker Prize-winning author of ‘Offshore’ and ‘The Blue Flower’, turns her attention to the remarkable life of the Pre-Raphaelite artist Edward Burne-Jones.
Miss Wolfe, who knew the incumbent, Dr. Robert]. Nevin (r839—r9o6), was one of those who helped to finance the project. Burne-Jones also had American buyers for his pictures.The earliest, apart from Norton, seems to have been William ...
This volume studies some of Edward Burne-Jones’s paintings, focusing specifically on his approach to nature, both through his observations about the real, physical world and through his symbolic interpretations of earthly and celestial ...
This letter was intended to be passed on to Sir Coutts Lindsay. Burne-Jones's anxiety was all the more intense since he was, as he put it, 'so wrapped up in the place' that his own reputation would inevitably suffer as a result of the ...
The centenary of Burne-Jones' death falls in 1998, and here the career of the greatest of all English romantic painters is reassesed.
In this deeply thoughtful book, Caroline Arscott explores particular aspects of the paintings of Burne-Jones and the designs of Morris and concludes that there are close interconnections in theme, allusion, and formal strategy between the ...
Ash analyzes the life and work of Burne- Jones (1833-1898), a leading Pre-Raphaelite painter and pivotal figure in late 19th-century British art, and presents a stunning selection of his most enchanting paintings in a large format and high ...
" Sir Edward Burne-Jones was the greatest painter of the second generation Pre-Raphaelites.He considered that art should be valued as an object of beauty engendering a sensual response, rather than for the story or moral implicit in the ...
Sir Edward Burne-Jones: A Record and Review