Burne-Jones
Americannoun
noun
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An exhibition of artists who pushed back against the new aesthetics of industrialization and traditional training by the Royal Academy of Arts, including Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Everett Millais, Kate Bunce, Edward Burne-Jones and others.
From Seattle Times • May 31, 2019
On being assured that the mummy was real enough, Burne-Jones insisted on giving his own tubes of paint a burial in the garden.
From The New Yorker • Aug. 27, 2018
The women who appear in these paintings are lifted from earlier ones by the likes of John Everett Millais and Edward Burne-Jones, aesthetically backward-looking Victorian Britons.
From Washington Post • Sep. 23, 2016
He stood in contorted positions for hours before artists as renowned as Edward Burne-Jones and John Singer Sargent.
From New York Times • May 2, 2013
There are people, of course, who don't, if you call them painters: Watts, Burne-Jones, Moreau, that sort of hermit-crab.
From Spiritual Adventures by Symons, Arthur
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