Edward Burne-Jones, Victorian artist-dreamer
Stephen Wildman (Author), Edward Coley Burne-Jones (Artist), John Christian (Author), Alan Crawford (Contributor), Laurence Des Cars (Contributor), Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) (Publisher, Host institution), Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery (Host institution), Musée d'Orsay (Host institution)
A pupil of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and a protege of John Ruskin, Burne-Jones belonged to the second generation of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, creating a narrative style of romantic symbolism steeped in medieval legend and fused with the influence of Italian Renaissance masters that was to have widespread influence on both British and European art. Within the sophisticated culture of the late Victorian period, Burne-Jones's star rose rapidly, and by the 1880s he had become the establishment artist par excellence, one of the most admired and sought-after painters in Europe
Print Book, English, 1998
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1998
Essay
xi, 361 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm
9780870998584, 9780870998591, 9780300085822, 9780810965225, 0870998587, 0870998595, 0300085826, 0810965224
38565999
Catalog of an exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, June 4-Sept. 6, 1998, the Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery, Birmingham, England, Oct. 17, 1998-Jan. 17, 1999, and the Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Mar. 1-June 6, 1999
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