Imaginary Portraits

Walter Horatio Pater (1839–1894) was an English essayist, literary and art critic, and fiction writer, known for his eloquent prose and the advocacy of 'art for art's sake'. His profound influence on the Aesthetic Movement is best encapsulated in his seminal collection of essays 'The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry' (1873), which championed a focus on sensory experience and the enjoyment of...