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'art comes to you professing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake'In Studies in the History of the Renaissance (1873), a diffident Oxford don produced an audacious and incalculably influential defence... Read Full Overview

Through his highly idiosyncratic readings of some of the finest paintings, sculptures, and poems of the French and Italian Renaissance, Walter Pater in Studies in the History of the Renaissance redefined the practice of criticism as an impressionistic, almost erotic exploration... Read Full Overview

"The golden book of spirit and sense, the holy writ of beauty." -- Oscar Wilde
Published to equal parts scandal and acclaim in 1873, The Renaissance inspired a generation of Oxford undergraduates, who adapted its credo of "arts for art's sake" for their Aesthetic... Read Full Overview

The Renaissance is a strikingly original and influential collection of essays in which Walker Pater gave memorable expression to an aesthetic view of life. It has never before been published in a scholarly edition. Donald L. Hill reproduces Pater's text of 1893, with a record... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely... Read Full Overview

The Renaissance-studies in art and poetry is an Italian arts history volume by Walter Horatio Pater. Contents: Preface -- Two early French stories -- Pico della Mirandola -- Sandro Botticelli -- Luca della Robbia -- The poetry of Michelangelo -- Leonardo da Vinci -- The school... Read Full Overview

Pater's graceful essays discuss the achievements of Botticelli, Leonardo, Michelangelo, and other artists. included is his celebrated discussion of the Mona Lisa in a study of Da Vinci. This book concludes with an uncompromising advocacy of hedonism, urging readers to experience... Read Full Overview

Oscar Wilde called this collection of essays the "holy writ of beauty." Published to great acclaim in 1837, it examines the work of Renaissance artists such as Winckelmann and the then neglected Botticelli, and includes a celebrated discussion of the Mona Lisa in a study of Da... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely... Read Full Overview

Pater's classic aesthetic essays.

Oscar Wilde called this collection of essays the "holy writ of beauty." Published to great acclaim in 1837, it examines the work of Renaissance artists such as Winckelmann and the then neglected Botticelli, and includes a celebrated discussion of the Mona Lisa in a study of Da... Read Full Overview

Walter Pater's The Renaissance (1873) was, and is still influential both as a testimony on the reception of Antiquity and the Renaissance by the Victorians and as a subtle meditation on the nature and role of art that heralds more contemporary thoughts and visions.

Quand il a offert a ses contemporains en 1873 La Renaissance, ce breviaire impertinent et poetique qui leur enseignait le plaisir esthetique, Walter Pater desirait eclairer en termes discretement revolutionnaires la relation fondamentale qui unit le regardeur a l'uvre... Read Full Overview

Immerse yourself in the timeless beauty and profound wisdom of the Renaissance with Walter Pater's seminal work, "The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry." In this enchanting volume, Pater invites readers to journey through the vibrant tapestry of Renaissance culture, where... Read Full Overview