Caput Mortuum—meaning “dead head”—also known as “mummy brown” was a rich brown pigment with an unpleasant source. From the 16th century onwards, the pigment was made from grinding up the dried flesh ...
The last major artist to belong to the Pre-Raphaelite milieu, Edward Burne-Jones is distinguished among them for his embrace of Renaissance aesthetics. While retaining the medieval influence that was ...
A long-lost painting by the Pre-Raphaelite artist Sir Edward Burne-Jones, one of the leading lights of the radical Victorian art movement, has been rediscovered and will be exhibited for the first ...
His subjects have been described as ‘narcotised beauties’ and he painted his mistresses as Renaissance nymphs: but Edward Burne-Jones was a modernist, argues Cameron Laux. The old Italian term ...
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