History of Beauty
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Storia della bellezza (2004, English translation: History of Beauty/On Beauty, 2004) is a book by Umberto Eco, co-edited with Girolamo de Michele.
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The chapter 'The Beauty of Monsters'
- Symposium 215-222
- Phaedrus 250d-251a
- 'Defect' by Guillaume D'Auvergne
- "We should call ugly a man who had three eyes and likewise one who had only one eye. But the former we should thus name for possessing what he ... --tr. History of Aesthetics
- 'The Beauty of the Devil' by Bonaventure
- 'The Beauty of the image of the painting refers to its model in a manner that is not worthy of veneration in itself, as when the image of the Blessed Nicholas is venerated; but Beauty refers to the model in such a way that it is to be found in the image too, and not solely in the subject it represents. Thus two modes of Beauty may be found in the image, although it is obvious that there is only one subject of the image. For it is clear that the image is called beautiful when it is well painted, and it is also called beautiful when it is a good representation of the person whose image it is, and that this is another cause of Beauty emerges from the fact that one can be present in the absence of another; which is precisely why we may say that the image of the devil is beautiful when it well represents the turpitude of the devil and as a consequence of this aspect it is also repugnant.'
- 'The depiction of ugliness' by Kant from Critique of Judgment
- 'The depiction of pain' by Hegel from Lectures on Aesthetics
- 'The aesthetic inferno' by Rosenkranz from Aesthetik des Hässlichen (1853)
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Selected list of works
- An Allegorical Figure of Calliope, c. 1460 [1]
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TOC
Introduction p. 8
Comparative Tables Nude Venus p. 16 Nude Adonis p. 18 Clothed Venus p. 20 Clothed Adonis p. 22 Face and Hair of Venus p. 24 Face and Hair of Adonis p. 26 Madonna p. 28 Jesus p. 30 Kings p. 32 Queens p. 34 Proportions p. 34 The Aesthetic Ideal in Ancient Greece The Chorus of the Muses p. 37 The Artist's Idea of Beauty p. 42 The Beauty of the Philosophers p. 48 Apollonian and Dionysiac The Gods of Delphi p. 53 From the Greeks to Nietzsche p. 57 Beauty as Proportion and Harmony Number and Music p. 61 Architectonic Proportion p. 64 The Human Body p. 72 The Cosmos and Nature p. 82 The Other Arts p. 86 Conformity with the Purpose p. 88 Proportion in History p. 90 Light and Color in the Middle Ages Light and Color p. 99 God as Light p. 102 Light, Wealth, and Poverty p. 105 Ornamentation p. 111 Color in Poetry and Mysticism p. 114 Color in Everyday Life p. 118 The Symbolism of Color p. 121 Theologians and Philosophers p. 125 The Beauty of Monsters A Beautiful Portrayal of Ugliness p. 131 Legendary and Marvelous Beings p. 138 Ugliness in Universal Symbolism p. 143 Ugliness as a Requirement for Beauty p. 148 Ugliness as a Natural Curiosity p. 152 From the Pastourelle to the Donna Angelicata Sacred and Profane Love p. 154 Ladies and Troubadours p. 161 Ladies and Knights p. 164 Poets and Impossible Loves p. 167 Magic Beauty between the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries Beauty Between Invention and Imitation of Nature p. 176 The Simulacrum p. 180 Suprasensible Beauty p. 184 The Venuses p. 188 Ladies and Heroes The Ladies... p. 193 ...and the Heroes p. 200 Practical Beauty... p. 206 ...and Sensual Beauty p. 209 From Grace to Disquieting Beauty Toward a Subjective and Manifold Beauty p. 214 Mannerism p. 218 The Crisis of Knowledge p. 225 Melancholy p. 226 Agudeza, Wit, Conceits... p. 229 Reaching Out for the Absolute p. 233 Reason and Beauty The Dialectic of Beauty p. 237 Rigor and Liberation p. 241 Palaces and Gardens p. 242 Classicism and Neoclassicism p. 244 Heroes, Bodies, and Ruins p. 249 New Ideas, New Subjects p. 252 Women and Passions p. 259 The Free Play of Beauty p. 264 Cruel and Gloomy Beauty p. 269 The Sublime A New Concept of Beauty p. 275 The Sublime Is the Echo of a Great Soul p. 278 The Sublime in Nature p. 281 The Poetics of Ruins p. 285 The "Gothic" Style in Literature p. 288 Edmund Burke p. 290 Kant's Sublime p. 294 Romantic Beauty Romantic Beauty p. 299 Romantic Beauty and the Beauty of the Old Romances p. 304 The Vague Beauty of Je Ne Sais Quoi p. 310 Romanticism and Rebellion p. 313 Truth, Myth, and Irony p. 315 Gloomy, Grotesque, Melancholic p. 321 Lyrical Romanticism p. 325 The Religion of Beauty Aesthetic Religion p. 329 Dandyism p. 333 Flesh, Death, and the Devil p. 336 Art for Art's Sake p. 338 Against the Grain p. 341 Symbolism p. 346 Aesthetic Mysticism p. 351 The Ecstasy Within Things p. 353 The Impression p. 356 The New Object Solid Victorian Beauty p. 361 Iron and Glass: The New Beauty p. 364 From Art Nouveau to Art Deco p. 368 Organic Beauty p. 374 Articles of Everyday Use: Criticism, Commercialization, Mass Production p. 376 The Beauty of Machines The Beautiful Machine? p. 381 From Antiquity to the Middle Ages p. 385 From the Fifteenth Century to the Baroque p. 388 The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries p. 392 The Twentieth Century p. 394 From Abstract Forms to the Depths of Material "Seek His Statues among the Stones" p. 401 The Contemporary Re-Assessment of Material p. 402 The Ready Made p. 406 From Reproduced to Industrial Material to the Depths of Material p. 407 The Beauty of the Media The Beauty of Provocation or the Beauty of Consumption? p. 413 The Avant-Garde, or the Beauty of Provocation p. 415 The Beauty of Consumption p. 418 Bibliographical References of Anthology Translations p. 431 Index of Anthology Authors p. 433 Index of Artists p. 435
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