siderealised

Updated: May 19, 2025

Voltaire's impression on Winckelmann was never effaced; and it gave him a consideration for French literature which contrasts with his contempt for the literary products of Germany. German literature transformed, siderealised, as we see it in Goethe, reckons Winckelmann among its initiators.

Walter Pater - The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry