periklean

Updated: May 12, 2025

Such works of art, such artists of widest wholesome appealingness, there are in all periods of artistic development; more in certain fortunate moments, say the Periklean age and the early sixteenth century, than in others; and most perhaps in certain specially favoured regions in Attica during Antiquity, and during painting times, in the happy Venetian country.

Vernon Lee - Renaissance Fancies and Studies: Being a Sequel to Euphorion