Paters 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 arts 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."
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