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Walter Horatio Pater – angielski pisarz, krytyk sztuki, wykładowca akademicki. Autor zbioru szkiców Renesans. Rozważania o sztuce i poezji.

Ważnymi wydarzeniami młodości Patera było zobaczenie katedry w Canterbury i przeczytanie książki Modern Painters Johna Ruskina, krytyka sztuki związanego z estetyzmem. W 1858 roku Pater rozpoczął studia w oksfordzkim Queen’s College. Jego ulubionymi pisarzami byli wtedy Gustave Flaubert, Théophile Gautier, Algernon Charles Swinburne i Charles Baudelaire. Podczas podróży do rodziny mieszkającej w Niemczech rozpoczął naukę języka niemieckiego; czytał w oryginale dzieła popularnych wtedy niemieckich filozofów, między innymi G.W.F. Hegla.

W drugiej połowie lat 60. XIX wieku zaczęły ukazywać się pierwsze artykuły Patera poświęcone różnym dziedzinom sztuki; większość z nich, łącznie ze słynnym szkicem o malarstwie Leonarda da Vinci, który rozpoczął kult Mona Lisy, ukazała się w 1873 roku jako Studies in the History of the Rennaissance. Książka wzbudziła wiele kontrowersji, według niektórych krytyków promowała hedonizm i immoralizm, kult sztuki dla sztuki . W drugim wydaniu tytuł zmieniony został na The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry, a kontrowersyjne zakończenie zostało usunięte. Powróciło dopiero, w zmienionej wersji, w wydaniu trzecim w 1888 roku.

Swoją filozofię sztuki rozwijał Pater w kolejnych dziełach, zwłaszcza powieści Marius the Epicurean, która ukazała się w 1885 roku. Kolejne jego zbiory szkiców to między innymi Imaginary Portraits , Appreciations , Plato and Platonism i wydane pośmiertnie Greek Studies oraz Miscellaneous Studies .

Zarówno treść dzieł Patera, jak i ich wysoka wartość literacka miały duży wpływ na współczesnych brytyjskiego krytyka oraz późniejsze pokolenia. Inspirowali się nimi między innymi prerafaelici, Oscar Wilde czy William Butler Yeats. Wikipedia  

✵ 4. Sierpień 1839 – 30. Lipiec 1894   •   Natępne imiona Walter Horatio Pater
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Walter Pater cytaty

„Każda sztuka zawsze dąży do tego, by stać się muzyką.”

Walter Pater

Źródło: Studies in the History of the Rennaissance. Giorgione (1873)

O sztuce

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“To know when one's self is interested, is the first condition of interesting other people.”

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Źródło: Marius the Epicurean http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext03/8mrs110.txt (1885), Ch. 6

“Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.”

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Conclusion
The Renaissance http://www.authorama.com/renaissance-1.html (1873)
Kontekst: Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end. A counted number of pulses only is given to us of a variegated, dramatic life. How may we see in them all that is to to be seen in them by the finest senses? How shall we pass most swiftly from point to point, and be present always at the focus where the greatest number of vital forces unite in their purest energy. To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.

“How shall we pass most swiftly from point to point, and be present always at the focus where the greatest number of vital forces unite in their purest energy. To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.”

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Conclusion
The Renaissance http://www.authorama.com/renaissance-1.html (1873)
Kontekst: Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end. A counted number of pulses only is given to us of a variegated, dramatic life. How may we see in them all that is to to be seen in them by the finest senses? How shall we pass most swiftly from point to point, and be present always at the focus where the greatest number of vital forces unite in their purest energy. To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.

“Every intellectual product must be judged from the point of view of the age and the people in which it was produced.”

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Pico Della Mirandola
The Renaissance http://www.authorama.com/renaissance-1.html (1873)

“A book, like a person, has its fortunes with one; is lucky or unlucky in the precise moment of its falling in our way, and often by some happy accident counts with us for something more than its independent value.”

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Źródło: Marius the Epicurean http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext03/8mrs110.txt (1885), Ch. 6

“It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.”

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Appreciation, Postscript (1889)

“We need some imaginative stimulus, some not impossible ideal such as may shape vague hope, and transform it into effective desire, to carry us year after year, without disgust, through the routine-work which is so large a part of life.”

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Źródło: Marius the Epicurean http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext03/8mrs110.txt (1885), Ch. 25

“The presence that thus rose so strangely beside the waters, is expressive of what in the ways of a thousand years men had come to desire. Hers is the head upon which all "the ends of the world are come," and the eyelids are a little weary. It is a beauty wrought out from within upon the flesh, the deposit, little cell by cell, of strange thoughts and fantastic reveries and exquisite passions. Set it for a moment beside one of those white Greek goddesses or beautiful women of antiquity, and how would they be troubled by this beauty, into which the soul with all its maladies has passed! All the thoughts and experience of the world have etched and moulded there, in that which they have of power to refine and make expressive the outward form, the animalism of Greece, the lust of Rome, the reverie of the middle age with its spiritual ambition and imaginative loves, the return of the Pagan world, the sins of the Borgias. She is older than the rocks among which she sits; like the vampire, she has been dead many times, and learned the secrets of the grave; and has been a diver in deep seas, and keeps their fallen day about her; and trafficked for strange webs with Eastern merchants: and, as Leda, was the mother of Helen of Troy, and, as Saint Anne, the mother of Mary; and all this has been to her but as the sound of lyres and flutes, and lives only in the delicacy with which it has moulded the changing lineaments, and tinged the eyelids and the hands. The fancy of a perpetual life, sweeping together ten thousand experiences, is an old one; and modern thought has conceived the idea of humanity as wrought upon by, and summing up in itself, all modes of thought and life. Certainly Lady Lisa might stand as the embodiment of the old fancy, the symbol of the modern idea.”

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On the Mona Lisa, in Leonardo da Vinci
The Renaissance http://www.authorama.com/renaissance-1.html (1873)

“What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions.”

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Conclusion
The Renaissance http://www.authorama.com/renaissance-1.html (1873)

“Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass.”

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The Renaissance http://www.authorama.com/renaissance-1.html (1873)

“Rousseau … asked himself how he might make as much as possible of the interval that remained; and he was not biassed by anything in his previous life when he decided that it must be by intellectual excitement.”

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Conclusion
The Renaissance http://www.authorama.com/renaissance-1.html (1873)