The Renaissance, Studies in Art and Poetry

By Walter Pater

Subjects: Art, Art, renaissance, Gedichten, Literature, Nonfiction, Fiction, general, Ut pictura poesis (Aesthetics), Arts, Arts de la Renaissance, Plastische kunst, Poetry, history and criticism, Schilderkunst, Renaissance, History, Italy, Proza, Renaissance Arts

Description: Walter Pater’s Studies in the History of the Renaissance was one of the most talked about books in nineteenth-century Britain, and it remains a work of unusual importance to anyone interested in art history or English literature. Pater’s luxurious and finely wrought style inspired generations of writers, and his unique blend of scholarship, philosophy, and personal bias made his view of the quintessential ‘spirit of the renaissance’ a key subject for subsequent aesthetic debate.