"This English classic contains studies of those 'supreme artists,' Michelangelo and Da Vinci, and of Botticelli, Della Robia, Mirandola, and others, who have a distinct faculty of their own by which they convey to us a peculiar quality of pleasure which we cannot get elsewhere. There is no romance or subtlety in the work of these masters too fine for Pater to distinguish in superb English"--from dust jacket.
Gift of Ann E. Hardham, John C. Hardham and Virginia B. Hardham, January 2012. From the library of Elizabeth von Arnim, later Countess Russell (1866-1941).