Walter Pater (1839-94) was the foremost Victorian writer on art and on aesthetic experience. The Renaissance, first published as Studies in the Renaissance (1873), is his best known work, made up of essays on Italian art and the Renaissance. This version forms part of his collected works (1900-1).
Pater's best known book, first published in 1873 and later revised, was reissued in the 1900-1 collected works.
