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Studies in the History of the Renaissance

Paperback • 2010 • English

Studies in the History of the Renaissance

By Walter Pater

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About the book

'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 of aestheticism. Through his highly idiosyncratic readings of some of the finest paintings, sculptures, and poems of the French and Italian Renaissance, Pater redefined the practice of criticism as an impressionistic, alm...Show more

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9780199535071

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published year

2010

Language

English

Original title

Studies in the History of the Renaissance

Format

Paperback

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