PATER, WALTER

Volume IX · p. 590 · 1952

English translation · Testo originale italiano

PATER, WALTER. - Critico e romanziere inglese, caposcuola dell'estetica decadentistica, n. a Shadwell il 4 ag. 1839, m. a Oxford il 30 luglio 1894.

Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.

In his Studies in the history of the Renaissance (1873) he appears to identify melancholy as the dominant motif of Renaissance art. His Imaginary Portraits (1887), portraits that are half historical and half fantastic,