Imaginary Portraits

Name: Imaginary Portraits
Author: Walter Pater

by Walter Pater

Collection of introspective fictional portraits exploring aestheticism

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Walter Pater

English critic and essayist whose Studies in the History of the Renaissance argued for art for art's sake and the cultivation of intense aesthetic experience. His description of the Mona Lisa influenced generations of writers. He was the spiritual father of the Aesthetic Movement.

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