Goedkoop Peacock and Vine Fortuny and Morris in Life and at Work – A.S. Byatt

An alluring and atmospheric enquiry into the creative impulse — as seen through the work and lives of Mariano Fortuny and William Morris — by one of our greatest novelists.
This ravishing little book, glowing with colour and generously illustrated throughout, opens a window on to the lives, passions and designs of two great artists a generation apart, William Morris and Mariano Fortuny. Inspired by a vision of the aquamarine light of Venice balancing Morris’s green English countryside, A.S. Byatt delves…