"Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass."

The Renaissance (1873)

Walter Horatio Pater was born #OTD in 1839. His first and most often reprinted book, Studies in the History of the Renaissance, in which he outlined his approach to art and advocated an ideal of the intense inner life, was taken by many as a manifesto of Aestheticism. via nostr:npub1kvnpp3m60derhwpqwc09zhk3ehk48tr6agc6dk9z2vggu9sga28qpxhm73

Books by Horatio Pater at PG:

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1367

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