The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.41 (691 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B0094FQ91G |
| Format Type | : | |
| Number of Pages | : | 337 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-01-21 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Marked by elegant fluency, Pater's essays discuss Botticelli, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and other artists who, for him, embodied the spirit of the Renaissance. He believed that art should be sensual and that beauty should rank as the highest ideal. Oscar Wilde called it the "holy writ of beauty." It was Pater's cry of "art for art's sake" that became the manifesto for the aesthetic movement. Published to great acclaim in 1873, Walter Pater's compendium of idiosyncratic, impressionistic essays on the Renaissance gained him a reputation as a daring modern philosopher. Pater's work survives to this day as one of the best pieces of cultural criticism to emerge from the 19th century.This collection is criticism as beautiful as the art it considers.
The writing is a bit old-fashioned but overall I thought it was a good book. It definitely opened my eyes to the I had to read this for a class I was taking. The writing is a bit old-fashioned but overall I thought it was a good book. It definitely opened my eyes to the Renaissance.. "classic. insightful even today." according to GiniO. classic. insightful even today.. Classic study This book has influenced almost all subsequent studies of the period,the main figures,etc. should be one of the first books one reads on the subject. And a delight if you savour a fine stylist. Need i say more?