1. Before ‘Winckelmann’, Pater had published his essay on Coleridge, exactly one year earlier, in the January issue of the Westminster Review, in 1866. Richard Dellamora has also noted the ‘depth of affinity’ between Winckelmann and Pater; Dellamora, ‘The Androgynous Body in Pater’s “Winckelmann”’, Browning Institute Studies 11 (1983), 51–68, p. 51.
2. See also Kenneth Clark, ‘Introduction’ to The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry (London and Glasgow: Fontana/Collins, 1961), p. 13;
3. and Donald L. Hill, ed., The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1980), p. 412.
4. For a full account of the blackmailing episode, in which Pater’s relationship with the undergraduate William Money Hardinge was disclosed to Benjamin Jowett, Master of Balliol College, see Billie Andrew Inman, ‘Estrangement and Connection: Walter Pater, Benjamin Jowett, and William Money Hardinge’, in Pater in the 1990s, eds Laurel Brake and Ian Small (Greensboro, NC: ELT Press, 1991), 1–20.
5. On Pater’s use of the figure of the relic, see Kevin Ohi’s evocative analysis in Innocence and Rapture: The Erotic Child in Pater, Wilde, James, and Nabokov (New York and Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), pp. 36–7.