You can not understand any artistic criticism of sculpture without regard to Herder and Winckelmann. It opens them practically discipline.

Faithful heir of this inauguration, Walter Pater, professor at Oxford, a student of Ruskin and master Wilde, wrote essays and novels (Studies in the History of the Renaissance and Marius the Epicurean, are examples of one and the other) and represents a light for aesthetics of his time, Victorian, who developed an exquisite sensitivity to everything Greek.

It is very likely that Pater was assumed as a link between the dark Hellenic art of the heroic stage, the first school of sculptors from 576 BC, and its Victorian period, a period that begins to deepen the appreciation of this art, one of the foundation stones of the West. Again and again Pater contextualize the works that occupy their interest and trace similarities with similar phenomena of universal art history. Enrich your work with the added element of the legendary so closely linked to the genesis of the early works that even today is difficult to achieve a separation between truth and myth.