Studies in the History of the Renaissance

Name: Studies in the History of the Renaissance
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ISBN: 9780199535071

ISBN-10: 0199535078

ISBN-13: 9780199535071

Edition: 2010

Authors: Walter Pater, Matthew Beaumont

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'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, almost erotic exploration of the critic's aesthetic responses. At the same time, reclaiming the Hellenism that he saw as the mostcharacteristic aspect of the Renaissance, he implicitly celebrated…

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List price: $9.99
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 2/11/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 5.12" wide x 7.72" long x 0.51" tall
Weight: 0.396
Language: English