{"product_id":"the-renaissance-studies-in-art-and-poetry","title":"De renaissance: Studies over kunst en poëzie","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat if the deepest question about a painting is not what it means, but what it does to you?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry, Walter Pater asks you to trust your own impressions of beauty. His essays move through France and Italy, from medieval love stories to Botticelli, Leonardo and Michelangelo. Rather than gather dates and battles, he explores how a work of art changes the person who looks at it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Preface sets out his method of looking. Studies of Aucassin and Nicolette, Amis and Amile, and Joachim du Bellay bring stories and poetry beside painting and sculpture. The short Conclusion turns toward life itself: if everything passes, how can you attend more fully to the beauty and experience within reach?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eInside this book\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eYour own eye matters\u003c\/strong\u003e – Discover a way of looking that begins with your particular response to art.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBeauty touched by sadness\u003c\/strong\u003e – Meet Botticelli through Pater’s attention to the qualities that make his paintings his own.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eStrength beside sorrow\u003c\/strong\u003e – Explore Michelangelo’s art through the Sistine ceiling, the Medici tombs, and his poetry.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePoetry across the arts\u003c\/strong\u003e – Follow Pater from medieval tales to du Bellay’s search for beauty in French verse.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe passing moment\u003c\/strong\u003e – Consider Pater’s challenge to live intensely through close attention to beauty and experience.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003ePerfect for readers who love paintings, poems and looking closely, or want to explore the roots of the aesthetic movement through rich, unhurried prose.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOpen the first page and let Pater’s questions sharpen the way you look.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Library of Alexandria Press","offers":[{"title":"E-book","offer_id":58289379737948,"sku":"LOA-C1902-EB","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Luisterboek","offer_id":58289379770716,"sku":"LOA-C1902-AU","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":58289379803484,"sku":"LOA-C1902-PB","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Gebonden","offer_id":58289379836252,"sku":"LOA-C1902-HC","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1027\/9442\/8764\/files\/loa-top-01902-en_f8592201-5ca2-44e7-9635-b132a9650cb1.jpg?v=1792697433","url":"https:\/\/libraryofalexandria.com\/nl\/products\/the-renaissance-studies-in-art-and-poetry","provider":"The Library of Alexandria","version":"1.0","type":"link"}