Renaissance
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. 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. He believed that art should be sensual and that beauty should rank as the...
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. 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. He believed that art should be sensual and that beauty should rank as the...
