‘Strange old Italian dresses’: Walter Pater, Victorian fashionista?

This article discusses Aesthetic dress as conceived by Walter Pater. Indeed in “Leonardo Da Vinci” (1869), the unfinished Gaston de Latour (1888-1894?), “The School of Giorgione” (1877) and “A Prince of Court Painters” (1885), Pater mentions and describes dress with special emphasis on details. Such...

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Main Author: Bénédicte COSTE
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Laboratoire d’Etudes et de Recherches sur le Monde Anglophone (LERMA) 2019-06-01
Series:E-REA
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/erea/7537