Edward Burne-Jones

Resumen del libro

Penelope Fitzgerald, the Booker Prize-winning author of Offshore' and The Blue Flower', turns her attention to the remarkable life of the Pre-Raphaelite artist Edward Burne-Jones. I mean by a picture a beautiful, romantic dream of something that never was, never will be, in a light better than any light that ever shone - in a land no one can define or remember, only desire' Edward Burne-JonesEdward Burne-Jones (1833-1898) was the prototypical pre-Raphaelite but with a truly individual sensibility. Penelope Fitzgerald's delightful biography charts his life from humble beginnings in Birmingham as the son of an unsuccessful framer, through a transformative period at Oxford, where he met his close friend and collaborator William Morris, and on to the apprenticeship with Dante Gabriel Rossetti that would shape his artistic vision.

His work harks back to an Arthurian England - an Arcadia that offered solace against the onset of the Industrial Revolution, and on a deeply personal level provided respite from his ever-present melancholia. This is an illuminating portrait of a fascinating figure - artistic genius, doting father, troubled husband - written with all Penelope Fitzgerald's characteristic sympathy and insight.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;p Penelope Fitzgerald, de soltera Knox, nació en 1916. Fue hija del editor de Punch, Edmund Knox, y sobrina del teólogo y novelista Ronald Knox, del criptógrafo Dilly Knox y del estudioso de la Biblia Wilfred Knox. En Impedimenta han aparecido sus novelas x{0026}lt;i La libreríax{0026}lt;/i (1978; Impedimenta, 2010), x{0026}lt;i A la derivax{0026}lt;/i (1979; Impedimenta, 2018), x{0026}lt;i Voces humanasx{0026}lt;/i (1980; Impedimenta, 2019), x{0026}lt;i La escuela de Freddiex{0026}lt;/i (1982; Impedimenta, 2022), x{0026}lt;i Inocenciax{0026}lt;/i (1986; Impedimenta, 2013), x{0026}lt;i El inicio de la primaverax{0026}lt;/i (1988; Impedimenta, 2011), x{0026}lt;i La puerta de los ángelesx{0026}lt;/i (1990; Impedimenta, 2015), x{0026}lt;i La flor azulx{0026}lt;/i (1995, Impedimenta, 2014) y x{0026}lt;i El niño de orox{0026}lt;/i (1977; Impedimenta, 2024).x{0026}lt;/p