Edward Burne-Jones - The Flower Book

This study contains 38 colour roundels of Burne-Jones' flower paintings, each described by the author, along with an introductory essay and short biography by Gabriele Uercshlein. Burne-Jones, an English painter, (1833-1898) paid homage in his pictures to a Golden Age. For his Flower Book published posthumously, he painted 38 gouaches inspired by traditional names of flowers. No book of flowers in the conventional sense, but a diary, richly laden with symbols, of the artist's secret yearnings...