Burne-Jones: Paintings (Colour Plates)

Sir Edward Burne-Jones was the greatest of the second generation Pre-Raphaelites.

Burne-Jones's aim in art is best given in some of his own words, written to a friend:

"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 - and the forms divinely beautiful - and then I wake up, with the waking of Brynhild."

He considered that art should be valued as a...