On BeautyUmberto Eco 'On Beauty' is neither a history of art, nor a history of aesthetics but Umberto Eco draws on the histories of both these disciplines to define the ideas of beauty that have informed sensibilities from the classical world to modern times. |
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aesthetic Albrecht Dürer animal appear Aquinas artists aspects Baroque Beatus Beatus of Liébana Biblioteca Blaye body Boethius breasts canons Caspar David Friedrich century BC Classical Clèves colour concept of Beauty Dante death desire divine Duke of Nemours Edmund Burke eighteenth century expression eyes face feel figure Florence Friedrich Galleria Borghese Galleria degli Uffizi gaze grace Greek hair harmony heart human idea ideal imitation Jaufré Rudel Jean-Honoré Fragonard judgement Jugendstil Kant kiss Lady Leonardo light look machines mathematical Medieval Middle Ages monsters moral Musée du Louvre Museo Museum mystical nature Nazionale Neoplatonic object opposite original painter painting Paris passion perfection pleasing pleasure poets Policlitus Portrait produced proportion reason relationship Renaissance representation Romantic Rome seen sense sensible sentiment soul spirit splendour Sublime sweet symbolism taste things thirteenth century triangle twelfth century ugly Venus woman women words