The Renaissance

Name: The Renaissance
Author: Walter Pater

by Walter Pater

Essays tracing the development of aesthetic ideals through history

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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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