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1. theimaginativeconservative.org › 2017 › 03The Mona Lisa: “A Beauty Wrought Out From Within”

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   Mar 22, 2017 · Pater praises Mona Lisa as the embodiment of the modern idea of humanity, summing up all modes of thought and life. He describes her beauty as the result of strange thoughts, fantasies, passions, and experiences, and contrasts her with ancient and medieval women.

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3. leonardo.info › blog › 2023/03/20The Mindful Mona Lisa: Walter Pater's "The Renaissance" and ...

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   Mar 20, 2023 · How did Pater's 1873 essay on Leonardo's painting reflect the modern spirit of the time? Explore his ideas of experience, nature, and art in the context of the Anthropocene era.

4. www.bbc.com › culture › articleThe detail that unlocks the Mona Lisa - BBC

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   Feb 12, 2021 · Walter Pater sees past the seductive snare of the portrait's smile to a larger vitality that percolates as if from deep below the surface. Not everyone, however, has been content to...

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6. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Walter_PaterWalter Pater - Wikipedia

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   The Leonardo essay contains Pater's celebrated reverie on the Mona Lisa ("probably still the most famous piece of writing about any picture in the world"); the Botticelli essay was the first in English on this painter, contributing to the revival of interest in him; while the Winckelmann essay explored a temperament with whom Pater felt a ...

7. www.gutenberg.org › files › 2398The Project Gutenberg E-text of The Renaissance, by Walter Pater

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   THE RENAISSANCE. STUDIES IN ART AND POETRY. by. Walter Pater. Sixth Edition. Dedication To C.L.S. PREFACE. Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find a universal formula for it.

8. nines.org › print_exhibit › 571Lisa is a Mona: Challenging Victorian Gender Assumptions

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   Walter Pater was able to see beyond the macroscopic beauty of the portrait of Lisa Gherardini that the spectator sees at a glance. Pater read the emotions hidden in the microscopic details such as the half-smile and weary eyelids. Pater designated the Mona Lisa as the epitome of eternal femininity.

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   Who wrote the Mona Lisa?

   • Here's a passage about the Mona Lisa, written by the Victorian-era (19th-century) writer Walter Pater: "We all know the face and hands of the figure, set in its marble chair, in that circle of fantastic rocks, as in some faint light under sea. Perhaps of all ancient pictures time has chilled it least.

   Mona Lisa (article) | Leonardo da Vinci | Khan Academy

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   Did you know the Mona Lisa has a mysterious smile?

   • The Mona Lisa 's mysterious smile has inspired many writers, singers, and painters. Here's a passage about the Mona Lisa, written by the Victorian-era (19th-century) writer Walter Pater: "We all know the face and hands of the figure, set in its marble chair, in that circle of fantastic rocks, as in some faint light under sea.

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   Who quotes Pater's Mona Lisa?

   • W. Somerset Maugham "The Magician" (1908) Pater's essay on the Mona Lisa is quoted by Oliver Haddo in his seduction of Margaret. (Penguin 1967 edition, pp 85–86) Wilde's Lord Henry Wotton in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890) incessantly and willfully misquotes Pater's Renaissance and Marius.

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   Why is Mona Lisa a magnet?

   • Not everyone, however, has been content to locate the centre of Mona Lisa's magnetising mystique in her enigmatic grin. The Victorian writer Walter Pater believed it was the "delicacy" with which her hands and eyelids are rendered that transfix and hypnotise us into believing that the work possesses preternatural power.

   The detail that unlocks the Mona Lisa - BBC

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10. www.khanacademy.org › a › leonardo-mona-lisaMona Lisa (article) | Leonardo da Vinci | Khan Academy

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    Here's a passage about the Mona Lisa, written by the Victorian-era (19th-century) writer Walter Pater: "We all know the face and hands of the figure, set in its marble chair, in that circle of fantastic rocks, as in some faint light under sea.