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Just saw this cover for Walter Pater's The Renaissance and I CAN'T get over it https://t.co/HHWqhUnFma
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The passage paraphrased in this image is from Walter Pater's description of the Mona Lisa, a beautiful piece of prose which you should all go read. Heck, read the entirety of Pater's "The Renaissance", the only book which makes the history of terracotta sculpture sound exciting.