" 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 ...
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.
Edward Burne-Jones: The Earthly Paradise
Sir Edward Jones (1833–1898), ist mit allen Talenten gesegnet: er war Zeichner, Glasmaler und Keramiker.
This volume explores Burne-Jones' vision of an "Earthly Paradise" as expressed in painting cycles such as Perseus, Amor and Psyche, St George and Briar Rose, and his wonderful Arthurian tapestry sequences and book illustrations.
Charged with the beauty and with the strangeness of dreams, it has nothing of a dream's incoherence. Yet it is a dreamer always whose nature penetrates these works, a nature out of sympathy with struggle and strenuous action.
"When Burne-Jones' mural sized canvas of 'King Cophetua and the beggar maid' was exhibited in the shadow of the newly constructed Eiffel Tower at the Paris Exposition universelle in 1889, it caused a sensation scarcely less extraordinary ...
Yet it is a dreamer always whose nature penetrates these works.