The Renaissance: Studies in art and Poetry [Audiobook] download free by Walter Pater
- Listen audiobook: The Renaissance: Studies in art and Poetry
- Author: Walter Pater
- Release date: 2005/12/7
- Publisher: DOVER PUBLICATIONS INC.
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Biography
- ISBN: 9780486440255
- Rating: 8.94 of 10
- Votes: 883
- Review by: Emery Lindberg
- Review rating: 9.13 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/9/1
- Duration: 2H9M58S in 256 kbps (35.2 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-07-24
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WMA, WavPack, MP3, MPEG4, WAV, WMA Lossless, FLAC (compression ZIP, CAB, TAR.Z, RAR, Z)
- Total pages original book: 176
- Includes a PDF summary of 17 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 13M42S (3.4 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: 'The golden book of spirit and sense, the holy writ of beauty.' - Oscar WildePublished to equal parts scandal and acclaim in 1873, The Renaissance inspired a generation of Oxford undergraduates, who adapted its credo of 'arts for art's sake' for their Aesthetic Movement. Combining the skepticism of empirical philosophy, the materialism of 19th-century science, and the determinism of evolutionary theory, this book defies categorization and endures as an innovative example of cultural criticism.An Oxford don who led a quiet scholarly life, Walter Pater was shocked at the reactions his writings provoked. ('I wish they would not call me a hedonist,' he remarked, 'it gives such a wrong impression to those who do not know Greek.') His essays on the individuals he viewed as embodiments of the Renaissance spirit encompass artists whose careers span the Middle Ages through the 18th century. Pater's elegant, fluid prose examines the works of Pico della Mirandola, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Botticelli, and others. He crowns his compendium of reflections with his notorious Conclusion, in which he asserts that 'to burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.'One of Victorian England's most talked about books, The Renaissance exerted a crucial influence on the art criticism of the past century, and it remains a work of unusual importance to those interested in art history and English literature.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Art History: Renaissance, Art History, Biography: Arts & Entertainment
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- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 9.63 USD
- Dimensions: 135x214x8.89mm
- Weight: 176.9g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: New York, United States
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