...water 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 come", and the eyelids are a little weary.' And so the picture becomes more wonderful to us than it...

...of whom Jeeves, on the occasion when he lugged me there to take a dekko at her, said that hers was the head upon which all the ends of the world are come. He drew my attention, I remember, to the weariness of the eyelids. I got just the same impression of...

...Walter Pater in the Fortnightly Review of 1869, and later reprinted in his book The Renaissance (1873): Hers is the head upon which all 'the ends of the world...eyelids are a little weary. It is a beauty wrought from within upon the flesh, the deposit, little cell by cell, of strange thoughts and fantastic reveries...

...passage, Pater stresses the unworldly and sinister aspects of the Mona Lisa : The presence that rose thus so strangely beside the waters is expressive of what...the ways of a thousand years men had come to desire. ... It is a beauty wrought out from within upon the flesh, the deposit, little cell by cell of strange...

...Leonardo's Mona Lisa - 'All the thought and experience of the world have etched and moulded there', and she is 'expressive of what in the ways of a thousand years men had come to desire' - and through Michelangelo "as a synthetic, consummate type [...] [who] 'must be approached, not through...

...not a woman but an essence, an abstraction ["a composite"] of the ages", FC MacGrath says 3s5 . She is 'expressive of what in the ways of a thousand years men had come to desire', as Pater puts it; 'all modes of thought and life' have 'wrought upon' this image, 'sweeping together...

...more than one of his biographers. Walter Pater, who sees in the picture of Mona Lisa a "presence . . . expressive of what in the ways of a thousand years men had come to desire," and who writes very sensitively of "the unfathomable smile, always with a touch of something sinister...

...If a hundred shadows tend upon Braque's Lady with Guitar, surely a thousand tend upon the Mona Lisa. 'Hers is the head upon which "all the ends of the world arc come"'—the words are the critic Walter Pater's. All the thoughts and experience of the world...

...that it borrows from the picture 55 Earnest, pp. 273-74. that Pater called "La Gioconda," the picture of "what in the ways of a thousand years men had come to desire."56 Even in "The Critic as Artist," the agent who instills desire in another is difficult to...

...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...