The last major artist to belong to the Pre-Raphaelite milieu, Edward Burne-Jones is distinguished among them for his embrace of Renaissance aesthetics. While retaining the medieval influence that was ...

"First published in 2011 by Faber and Faber ltd." Contents Birmingham 1833-52 -- Oxford 1853-5 -- Northern France 1855 -- Early London 1856-7 -- Little Holland House 1858 -- First Italian Journey 1859 ...

Edward Burne-Jones, the last Pre-Raphaelite. To account for the yearning for beauty that animates so much of Edward Burne-Jones’ highly stylized art, the novelist Penelope Fitzgerald, who wrote a good ...

Caput Mortuum—meaning “dead head”—also known as “mummy brown” was a rich brown pigment with an unpleasant source. From the 16th century onwards, the pigment was made from grinding up the dried flesh ...

The Burlington Magazine, Vol. 161, No. 1391, Northern European art (February 2019), pp. 128-139 (12 pages) Between 1880 and his death in 1898, Edward Burne-Jones produced some of his largest and most ...

An artist can reveal the true personality of their sitter through a drawing. The first section of the Ashmolean’s exhibition includes intimate portraits of the group’s family, patrons and friends; it ...