The Last Pre-Raphaelite av Fiona MacCarthy

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<p><b>Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, this is the biography of celebrated </b><b>nineteenth-century </b><b>artist Edward Burne-Jones, who - with William Morris - connects Victorian and modern art.</b><br><br><b>''A triumph of biographical art.'' </b>Independent<br><b>''Magnificent.'' </b>Guardian <br><b>''Rarely are biographies both as authoritative and engaging as this.''</b> Literary Review<br><br> The angels on our Christmas cards, the stained glass in our churches, the great paintings in our galleries - <b>Edward Burne-Jones</b>''s work is all around us. The most admired British artist of his generation, he was a leading figure with <b>Oscar Wilde</b> in the aesthetic movement of the 1880s, inventing what became an iconic ''Burne-Jones look''. Widely recognised as the bridge between Victorian and modern art, he influenced not just his immediate circle but European artists such as Klimt and Picasso.<br><br>In this gripping book, award-winning biographer<b> Fiona MacCa