Edward Burne-Jones, Victorian Artist-dreamer

by Stephen Wildman, Edward Coley Burne-Jones, John Christian, Alan Crawford, Laurence Des Cars, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery, Musée d'Orsay

1998 · Metropolitan Museum of Art

This publication is issued in conjunction with the 1998 exhibition of the same name held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and scheduled for venues in England and France. Burnes-Jones (1833-1898) created a style that had widespread influence on both British and European art--a narrative style derived from medieval legend and fused with the influence of Italian Renaissance masters, a style that ceded popularity to a growing taste for abstraction at the end of the 19th century. Now Burne-Jones's star has risen again, and this catalogue contains full discussion of his life and work and representation of his prodigious output of drawings and paintings. 9.5x12.5"Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR