The Renaissance - Walter Pater

The Renaissance

By Walter Pater

  • Release Date: 1894-01-01
  • Genre: Art & Architecture
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Description

The Renaissance has a long and complex historiography, and in line with general scepticism of discrete periodizations, there has been much debate among historians reacting to the 19th-century glorification of the Renaissance and individual culture heroes as Renaissance men, questioning the usefulness of Renaissance as a term and as a historical delineation. The art historian Erwin Panofsky observed of this resistance to the concept of Renaissance.