...his admiration for that consummate picture. "Hers is the head upon which all the ends ofttu world art come, and. the eyelids are a little weary. It is a beauty wrought out from mil, an upon the flesh, the deposit, liitle cell by cell, of strange thoughts and fantastic reveries...

...'presence' which rises upon Rainbarrow, and in this respect is reminiscent of Pater's 'Mona Lisa' as 'expressive of what in the ways of a thousand years men had come to desire'.5I But desire for the female sublime is dangerous. Like Rossetti's 'Lilith' Eustacia also represents...

...word — "Leonardo's masterpiece," the Mona Lisa, Pater rhapsodizes over her archetypal meaning; she "is expressive of what in the ways of a thousand years men had come to desire." Her beauty is "wrought out from within upon the flesh, the deposit, little cell by cell, of strange...

...Lisa is an image of external nature, strange and alien, desirable and inspiring fear. The painting 'is expressive of what in the ways of a thousand years men had come to desire' (p 124). Like the image of Helen in western art, Pater's Mona Lisa is an icon of desire, of the creative...

...months and as by stroke of magic, that the image was projected? The presence that thus so strangely rose beside the waters is expressive of what in the ways of a thousand years man had come to desire. Hers is the head upon which all 'the ends of the world are come,' and the eyelids...

...tinged the eyelids and the hands. And I say to my friend, 'The presence that thus so strangely rose beside the waters is expressive of what in the ways of a thousand years man had come to desire;' and he answers me, 'Hers is the head upon which all "the ends of the world...

...number is echoed in her description because the same meaning is intended: "The presence that rose thus so strangely beside the waters, is expressive of what...ways of a thousand years men had come to desire." Read as a Medusa, the Mona Lisa is not only dead, but potentially dangerous for the viewer. Whereas...

...who would feel the spirit of da Vinci in the incantatory rhythms of Pater's reverie on the Mona Lisa? Hers is the head upon which all 'the ends of the world are come, and the eyelids are a little weary. In this return to the art of a rising individualism in order to find sustenance for the dreams of an...

...time and space. Central to Pater's description of the modernity of the Mona Lisa is desire: her image "is expressive of what in the ways of a thousand years men had come to desire" (46). Like the vampire, she has consumed the world, "trafficked for strange webs with Eastern merchants,"...

...drably-coloured portrait of a not very beautiful woman have become the most famous picture in the world? 'Hers is the head upon which all the ends of the world are come', wrote Walter Pater in his Renaissance Studies (l873). An ambiguous sentence, but suggesting finality...