Edward Burne-Jones - Softcover

Fitzgerald, Penelope

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0750934344 ISBN 13: 9780750934343

Publisher: The History Press, 2003

Synopsis

Edward Burne-Jones is well known as a Pre-Raphelite painter, but little is known about his life. Here, in her first book, Penelope Fitzgerald paints a portrait of one of the most interesting and individual of all Victorian artists.

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Review:

‘Wise and ironic, funny and humane, Fitzgerald is a wonderful, wonderful writer.’ David Nicholls

‘Of all the novelists of the last quarter-century, she has the most unarguable claim on greatness. [It has been] a career we, as readers, can only count ourselves lucky to have lived through.’ Philip Hensher, Spectator

Synopsis:

Edward Burne-Jones is well known as a Pre-Raphelite painter, but little is known about his life. Here, in her first book, Penelope Fitzgerald paints a portrait of one of the most interesting and individual of all Victorian artists. Having apprenticed himself to Rossetti in 1856, and influenced by early Italian Renaissance art, Burne-Jones sought to create images of another world, "a beautiful romantic dream, of something that never was, never will be, in a light better than any that ever shone, in a land no-one can define or remember, only desire, and the forms divinely beautiful." With his paintings of mythical and medieval subjects he eventually achieved great success worldwide, and had a considerable influence on the French and Catalan Symbolists.

About this edition

• Publisher: The History Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0750934344
• ISBN 13: 9780750934343
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 280