Studies in the History of the Renaissance
Studies in the History of the Renaissance

Author: Walter Pater

Publisher:

Published: 1873

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13:

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Pater's first major work, a study of kindred spirits in love of beauty. Criticized as a "demoralizing moralizer".--Jim Kepner ; Oscar Wilde's favorite book by Pater (Greif, p. 157) ; Includes essays on Pico della Mirandola, Michelangelo, da Vinci and Winckelmann.

The Renaissance
The Renaissance

Author: Walter Pater

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1980

Total Pages: 540

ISBN-13: 9780520033252

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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. Thebook strongly influenced art students and aesthetes of the day and is still valuable for the insights it offers and the beauty of the writing.

The Poetics of Ruins in Renaissance Literature
The Poetics of Ruins in Renaissance Literature

Author: Andrew Hui

Publisher: Fordham Univ Press

Published: 2017-01-02

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 0823273369

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The Renaissance was the Ruin-naissance, the birth of the ruin as a distinct category of cultural discourse, one that inspired voluminous poetic production. For humanists, the ruin became the material sign that marked the rupture between themselves and classical antiquity. In the first full-length book to document this cultural phenomenon, Andrew Hui explains how the invention of the ruin propelled poets into creating works that were self-aware of their absorption of the past as well as their own survival in the future.

Inventing the Renaissance Putto
Inventing the Renaissance Putto

Author: Charles Dempsey

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 9780807826164

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The figure of the putto (often portrayed as a mischievous baby) made frequent appearances in the art and literature of Renaissance Italy. Commonly called spiritelli, or sprites, putti embodied a minor species of demon, in their nature neither good

The Renaissance
The Renaissance

Author: Walter Pater

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1980-09-18

Total Pages: 531

ISBN-13: 0520036646

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The Renaissance is a strikingly original and influential collection of essays in which Walker Pater gave memorable expression to an aesthetic view of life. It has never before been published in a scholarly edition. Donald L. Hill reproduces Pater's text of 1893, with a record of all verbal variations in other editions, from the early magazine versions to the Library Edition of 1910. Mr. Hill provides a full set of critical and explanatory notes on each of Pater's essays; headnotes outlining the story of its composition, publication, and reception; and an essay on the history of the book as a whole. Students of Pater and the Aesthetic Movement in England will find this new, annotated edition indispensable.

Material World
Material World

Author: Guy Hedreen

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2021-05-31

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 900446137X

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Scholars from ancient and early modern studies, art history, literary criticism, philosophy, and the history of science explore the interplay between nature, science, and art in influential ancient texts and their reception in the Renaissance.