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Bernard Berenson wrote to Isabella early in their friendship about the work of Walter Pater, the critic and novelist who made him feel, as he later said, “keenly alive.” While a student at Harvard he’d often read Pater’s masterpiece The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry late into the night, absorbing the critic’s argument that art, as Berenson
... See moreNatalie Dykstra • Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner
Beauty🦢 (Concept)
Beauty does not linger, it only visits. Yet beauty's visitation affects us and invites us into its rhythm, it calls us to feel, think, and act beautifully in the world: to create and live a life that awakens the Beautiful. Beauty is a gentle but urgent call to awaken. Bestselling author John O'Donohue opens our eyes, hearts, and minds to the wonder... See more
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Eros
B Messenger • 7 cards
Baudelaire believed that beauty had two parts. First, timelessness — like the form of a Grecian urn. The other part of beauty is something absolutely fleeting, like a fashionable dandy on the street. - Jerry Saltz
beautyfish
Eden M. B. Roman • 1 card
Pater urged a direct response to art, emphasizing feeling and intensity and beauty in his articulation of aestheticism’s nineteenth-century rallying cry: “art for art’s sake.”
Natalie Dykstra • Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner
Beauty
Pam Ronald • 1 card
