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BURNE-JONES (EDWARD)
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Burne-Jones began his series of "Flower Book" designs in 1882, working upon them until his death in 1898. "The pictures in this book are not of flowers themselves, but of subjects suggested by their names... All the pictures take the same form, a circle about six inches in diameter—a kind of magic mirror in which the vision appears—and he wished them not to be separated, because, wide as is their scope, one spirit, that of pure fantasy, unites them... In some of the pictures details remain unfinished; but both colour and design are always perfectly clear, and are so intimately characteristic of the painter that I have sometimes thought this book contains a fuller expression of himself than exists elsewhere in his work" (Georgiana Burne-Jones, from the preface).





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