A much admired painting, titled "the Golden Stairs" (pictured), is a group portrait of the girls Burne-Jones adored.

名为《金色阶梯》(如图)的画作备受赞誉，它就是伯恩·琼斯所爱慕女性的群体画像。

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But taste in art was already moving fast towards the French Impressionists, whose work Burne-Jones disdained.

但当时的艺术审美需求快速地转向法国印象派[注释4]----伯恩-琼斯向来十分鄙夷此派的作品。

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Over the summer of 1857 three Oxford undergraduates, Rossetti, Morris and Edward Burne-Jones, shared rooms in George Street.

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Rossetti and Burne-Jones spotted Jane at the theatre and asked her to become one of their models, who they nicknamed "stunners".

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Rossetti, probably the most visually imaginative of them and certainly the most influential on the later generation of Morris and Burne-Jones was often hampered by his uncertain draftsmanship and grasp of perspective.

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