| Notes: 1936-39 printing of Toledano 086.1, binding/jacket style 7g, orange Rockwell Kent endpapers, $0.95 jacket price, 257 titles on jacket verso. Jacket toned, jacket edges rubbed with a couple small tears and tiny chips, ink name on front endpaper, ink star stamp on rear endpaper with minor transfer to rear jacket flap. xxxi, 199 pp. Introduction by Arthur Symons. Pater's famous studies of Botticelli, Della Robbia, Da Vinci, Michelangelo, and other luminaries of the Renaissance. Pater's graceful essays discuss the achievements of Botticelli, Leonardo, Michelangelo, and other artists. Included is his celebrated discussion of the Mona Lisa in a study of Da Vinci. This book concludes with an uncompromising advocacy of hedonism, urging readers to experience life as fully as possible. His cry of "art for art's sake" became the manifesto of the Aesthetic Movement, and his assessments of Renaissance art have influenced generations of readers. Oscar Wilde called this collection of essays the "holy writ of beauty. |