The Renaissance
Studies in Art and Poetry (Oxford World's Classics)
By Adam Phillips, Walter Pater
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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 Vinci. The
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- English Books
- Paperback 208 Pages
- ISBN-10: 019283553X
- ISBN-13: 9780192835536
- Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
- Pub date: Sep 17, 1998
- Dimensions: 1290 mm x 839 mm x 65 mm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Hardcover, Audio Cassette, Library Binding, Others and eBook
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In 1965 the Yale scholar René Wellek remarked that “today Pater is under a cloud; he is no longer widely read, and he is dismissed as an ‘impressionistic’ critic.” The cloud has lifted. Most of Pater’s books are still out of print, it is nearly impos ... (read full critics)