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Giocondo__: Long before Walter Pater started looking for symbols, viewers felt that there was something strange about the Mona Lisa.

Giocondo__: In 1867, the English writer Walter Pater described the Mona Lisa as a symbol of eternal femininity and people began to wonder:

SCETV: Pater, Botticelli, and Bach: Walter Pater was an influential 19th-century English author and critic, and in 1870 he wrote a fascinating essay about the Italian Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli.

NEELLIANGO53421: Behind the perfection of a man's style, must lie the passion of a man's soul.,Oscar Wilde, Reviews,passion, prose, soul, style, walter-pater, writing,

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Giocondo__: Long before Walter Pater started looking for symbols, viewers felt that there was something strange about the Mona Lisa.

Giocondo__: In 1867, the English writer Walter Pater described the Mona Lisa as a symbol of eternal femininity and people began to wonder:

Giocondo__: In 1867, the English writer Walter Pater described the Mona Lisa as a symbol of eternal femininity and people began to wonder:

Giocondo__: In 1867, the English writer Walter Pater described the Mona Lisa as a symbol of eternal femininity and people began to wonder:

Giocondo__: Long before Walter Pater started looking for symbols, viewers felt that there was something strange about the Mona Lisa.

Giocondo__: In 1867, the English writer Walter Pater described the Mona Lisa as a symbol of eternal femininity and people began to wonder:

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Giocondo__: Long before Walter Pater started looking for symbols, viewers felt that there was something strange about the Mona Lisa.

Giocondo__: Long before Walter Pater started looking for symbols, viewers felt that there was something strange about the Mona Lisa.

Setantalus: 'The way to perfection is through a series of disgusts.' Walter Pater, The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry

Giocondo__: Long before Walter Pater started looking for symbols, viewers felt that there was something strange about the Mona Lisa.

Giocondo__: In 1867, the English writer Walter Pater described the Mona Lisa as a symbol of eternal femininity and people began to wonder:

Giocondo__: Long before Walter Pater started looking for symbols, viewers felt that there was something strange about the Mona Lisa.

Giocondo__: In 1867, the English writer Walter Pater described the Mona Lisa as a symbol of eternal femininity and people began to wonder:

ThomasBalazs: "We are all condamnés as Victor Hugo says: we are all under sentence of death but with a sort of indefinite reprieve. . . we have an interval, and then our place knows us no more. . . . our one chance lies in expanding that interval. . . " Walter Pater.

Giocondo__: Long before Walter Pater started looking for symbols, viewers felt that there was something strange about the Mona Lisa.

Giocondo__: In 1867, the English writer Walter Pater described the Mona Lisa as a symbol of eternal femininity and people began to wonder:

Giocondo__: Long before Walter Pater started looking for symbols, viewers felt that there was something strange about the Mona Lisa.

Giocondo__: Long before Walter Pater started looking for symbols, viewers felt that there was something strange about the Mona Lisa.

Giocondo__: In 1867, the English writer Walter Pater described the Mona Lisa as a symbol of eternal femininity and people began to wonder:

DurrellSociety: Some spend this interval in listlessness, some in high passions, the wisest, at least among 'the children of this world,' in art and song. For our one chance lies in expanding that interval, in getting as many pulsations as possible into the given time. — Walter Pater

rsoventile: Pindar, anticipating both Hamlet’s sense of vacuity and Walter Pater’s openness to the ecstatic moment.

Giocondo__: Long before Walter Pater started looking for symbols, viewers felt that there was something strange about the Mona Lisa.

Giocondo__: In 1867, the English writer Walter Pater described the Mona Lisa as a symbol of eternal femininity and people began to wonder:

Giocondo__: In 1867, the English writer Walter Pater described the Mona Lisa as a symbol of eternal femininity and people began to wonder:

JosephBristow: Today is the CFP deadline for "Walter Pater, The Renaissance, and Legacies of Aestheticism." Trinity College, Oxford, 26–27 June 2023:

Kulambq: Thomas Hardy met Walter Pater in London in 1886. His impression of Pater was 'that of one carrying weighty ideas without spilling them.' It has been theorized that the character of Eustacia in 'The Return of the Native' is modelled upon Pater's profound sensuality.

herkosO: "To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life." Walter Pater

Giocondo__: In 1867, the English writer Walter Pater described the Mona Lisa as a symbol of eternal femininity and people began to wonder:

Giocondo__: Long before Walter Pater started looking for symbols, viewers felt that there was something strange about the Mona Lisa.

Giocondo__: Long before Walter Pater started looking for symbols, viewers felt that there was something strange about the Mona Lisa.

Giocondo__: Long before Walter Pater started looking for symbols, viewers felt that there was something strange about the Mona Lisa.

Giocondo__: In 1867, the English writer Walter Pater described the Mona Lisa as a symbol of eternal femininity and people began to wonder:

furnitureman14: I should read Walter Pater.

Giocondo__: Long before Walter Pater started looking for symbols, viewers felt that there was something strange about the Mona Lisa.

LouiseCreechan: Today I feel like watching the world burn. Victorianists, I deeply dislike Walter Pater.

Giocondo__: In 1867, the English writer Walter Pater described the Mona Lisa as a symbol of eternal femininity and people began to wonder:

radical__middle: THE REAL CULTURE WAR "The legitimate contention is not of one age or school of literary art against another, but of all substantive schools alike, against the stupidity which is dead to the substance, and the vulgarity which is dead to the form." - Walter Pater

Anderso34346081: At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action.,Walter Pater,Action, Reality, Sight ,

Giocondo__: Long before Walter Pater started looking for symbols, viewers felt that there was something strange about the Mona Lisa.

Giocondo__: In 1867, the English writer Walter Pater described the Mona Lisa as a symbol of eternal femininity and people began to wonder:

LastingXmc2173: At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action.,Walter Pater,Action, Reality, Sight ,

rgtrendsetter: Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most.-Walter Pater RALPHGAIL ASAPaKENsiAYUMI

Giocondo__: Long before Walter Pater started looking for symbols, viewers felt that there was something strange about the Mona Lisa.

Giocondo__: In 1867, the English writer Walter Pater described the Mona Lisa as a symbol of eternal femininity and people began to wonder:

Kulambq: "I wish people wouldn't call me a 'hedonist,'" stated Walter Pater, for "it produces such a bad effect on the minds of those who don't know Greek."

Kulambq: Edward Thomas described Walter Pater as a thinker who 'aspired to be what he conceived to be a Christian, a Greek with Christianity added to his Hellenism, but by instinct and natural piety he was a Greek.'

Kulambq: 'In aesthetic criticism the first step towards seeing one's object as it really is, is to know one's impression as it really is, to discriminate it, to realise it distinctly.' ~ Walter Pater

_ayyumii: Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.-Walter Pater RALPHGAIL ISIPBATAsaSHOWTIME

Giocondo__: Long before Walter Pater started looking for symbols, viewers felt that there was something strange about the Mona Lisa.

Giocondo__: In 1867, the English writer Walter Pater described the Mona Lisa as a symbol of eternal femininity and people began to wonder:

Giocondo__: Long before Walter Pater started looking for symbols, viewers felt that there was something strange about the Mona Lisa.

callebo49356712: Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those about us, and in the very brilliancy of their gifts some tragic dividing on their ways, is, on this short day of frost and sun, to sleep before evening.,Walter Pater,Day, Sleep, Sun ,

Giocondo__: In 1867, the English writer Walter Pater described the Mona Lisa as a symbol of eternal femininity and people began to wonder:

neemagroup617: To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.,Walter Pater,Life, Flame, Burn ,

kwingaj43984997: To burn always with this hard gemlike flame to maintain this ecstasy is success in life.,Walter Pater,success,

Giocondo__: Long before Walter Pater started looking for symbols, viewers felt that there was something strange about the Mona Lisa.

Giocondo__: In 1867, the English writer Walter Pater described the Mona Lisa as a symbol of eternal femininity and people began to wonder:

Kulambq: 'We have an interval, and then our place knows us no more. Some spend this interval in listlessness, some in high passions, the wisest … in art and song.' ~ Walter Pater

Giocondo__: Long before Walter Pater started looking for symbols, viewers felt that there was something strange about the Mona Lisa.

Giocondo__: In 1867, the English writer Walter Pater described the Mona Lisa as a symbol of eternal femininity and people began to wonder:

Kulambq: Walter Pater in a short story 'The Child in the House' masterfully captures the uncanny emotions one is bound to feel upon encountering anew the place one used to call one's home.

JosephBristow: International Walter Pater Society, CFP for the June 26–27 conference on The Renaissance, Legacies of Aestheticism at Trinity College, Oxford. Proposals can be submitted here:

JosephBristow: Studies in Walter Pater and Aestheticism issue number 6. We will start shipping soon!

Giocondo__: In 1867, the English writer Walter Pater described the Mona Lisa as a symbol of eternal femininity and people began to wonder:

Giocondo__: In 1867, the English writer Walter Pater described the Mona Lisa as a symbol of eternal femininity and people began to wonder:

Giocondo__: Long before Walter Pater started looking for symbols, viewers felt that there was something strange about the Mona Lisa.

Giocondo__: Long before Walter Pater started looking for symbols, viewers felt that there was something strange about the Mona Lisa.

Anna_Girling: This is Tiny, a Pomeranian/King Charles, to whom Walter Pater used to read Plato while sitting in George Eliot's chair. It was all a bit much for poor Tiny though – apparently he preferred dressing up as a soldier: 'his knowledge of Plato was to the very last only superficial'.

RavacholArthur: Pretty damn sure it's time for the Walter Pater revival.

sheypeters: Not the fruit of experience but experience itself, is the end ~ Walter H. Pater

Giocondo__: Long before Walter Pater started looking for symbols, viewers felt that there was something strange about the Mona Lisa.

Giocondo__: In 1867, the English writer Walter Pater described the Mona Lisa as a symbol of eternal femininity and people began to wonder:

Giocondo__: Long before Walter Pater started looking for symbols, viewers felt that there was something strange about the Mona Lisa.

Giocondo__: In 1867, the English writer Walter Pater described the Mona Lisa as a symbol of eternal femininity and people began to wonder:

Giocondo__: Long before Walter Pater started looking for symbols, viewers felt that there was something strange about the Mona Lisa.

Giocondo__: In 1867, the English writer Walter Pater described the Mona Lisa as a symbol of eternal femininity and people began to wonder:

Giocondo__: Long before Walter Pater started looking for symbols, viewers felt that there was something strange about the Mona Lisa.

Giocondo__: In 1867, the English writer Walter Pater described the Mona Lisa as a symbol of eternal femininity and people began to wonder:

mobiquotes: Walter Pater said that all the arts aspire to the condition of music, but I’ve always felt that music aspires to the condition of words.

Giocondo__: Long before Walter Pater started looking for symbols, viewers felt that there was something strange about the Mona Lisa.

Giocondo__: In 1867, the English writer Walter Pater described the Mona Lisa as a symbol of eternal femininity and people began to wonder:

InadeBree: ‘For art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments’ sake.’ - Walter Pater The Renaissance Studies in Art and Poetry, 1873 Sandro Botticelli, Primavera (Spring) c. 1480

Giocondo__: Long before Walter Pater started looking for symbols, viewers felt that there was something strange about the Mona Lisa.

Giocondo__: In 1867, the English writer Walter Pater described the Mona Lisa as a symbol of eternal femininity and people began to wonder:

JosephBristow: Walter Pater, The Renaissance, and Legacies of Aestheticism Trinity College, Oxford, 26–27 June 2023. The CFP deadline is Friday, March 13, 2023. Our plenary speaker is Hilary Fraser., who will present on ‘Imaginary Postcards: Pater’s Renaissance on Location’.

Giocondo__: Long before Walter Pater started looking for symbols, viewers felt that there was something strange about the Mona Lisa.

Giocondo__: In 1867, the English writer Walter Pater described the Mona Lisa as a symbol of eternal femininity and people began to wonder:

Giocondo__: Long before Walter Pater started looking for symbols, viewers felt that there was something strange about the Mona Lisa.

Giocondo__: In 1867, the English writer Walter Pater described the Mona Lisa as a symbol of eternal femininity and people began to wonder:

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Giocondo__: In 1867, the English writer Walter Pater described the Mona Lisa as a symbol of eternal femininity and people began to wonder:

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PeterLo17339625: "that they bring out, for instance, the lights and shadows of human character, and relieve the present by maintaining in it an ideal sense of the past.” Walter Pater



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