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
An aristocratic intelligence officer named Alec Burne-Jones, seeing Joe’s potential, sent him to Cambridge to learn Russian and German and channeled his smarts and criminal skills into the life of a spy.
From Washington Post • Mar. 6, 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
This was amiably sublime and amiably characteristic.—I see Burne-Jones from time to time, but not as often as I should like.
From The Letters of Henry James (volume I) by James, Henry
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