Introduction -- Comparative tables -- Nude Venus -- Nude Adonis -- Clothed Venus -- Clothed Adonis -- Face and hair of Venus -- Face and hair of Adonis -- Madonna -- Jesus -- Kings -- Queens -- Proportions -- Chapter 1: Aesthetic Ideal In Ancient Greece -- 1: Chorus of the muses -- 2: Artist's idea of beauty -- 3: Beauty of the philosophers -- Chapter 2: Apollonian And Dionysiac -- 1: Gods of Delphi -- 2: From the Greeks to Nietzsche -- Chapter 3: Beauty As Proportion And Harmony -- 1: Number and music -- 2: Architectonic proportion -- 3: Human body -- 4: Cosmos and nature -- 5: Other arts -- 6: Conformity with the purpose -- 7: Proportion in history -- Chapter 4: Light And Color In The Middle Ages -- 1: Light and color -- 2: God as light -- 3: Light, wealth, and poverty -- 4: Ornamentation -- 5: Color in poetry and mysticism -- 6: Color in everyday life -- 7: Symbolism of color -- 8: Theologians and philosophers -- Chapter 5: Beauty Of Monsters -- 1: Beautiful portrayal of ugliness -- 2: Legendary and marvelous beings -- 3: Ugliness in universal symbolism -- 4: Ugliness as a requirement for beauty -- 5: Ugliness as a natural curiosity -- Chapter 6: From The Pastourelle To The Donna Angelicata -- 1: Sacred and profane love -- 2: Ladies and troubadours -- 3: Ladies and knights -- 4: Poets and impossible loves -- Chapter 7: Magic Beauty Between The Fifteenth And Sixteenth Centuries -- 1: Beauty between invention and imitation of nature -- 2: Simulacrum -- 3: Suprasensible beauty -- 4: Venuses -- Chapter 8: Ladies And Heroes -- 1: Ladies -- 2: Heroes -- 3: Practical beauty -- 4: Sensual beauty -- Chapter 9: From Grace To Disquieting Beauty -- 1: Toward a subjective and manifold beauty -- 2: Mannerism -- 3: Crisis of knowledge -- 4: Melancholy -- 5: Agudeza, wit, conceits -- 6: Reaching out for the absolute -- Chapter 10: Reason And Beauty -- 1: Dialectic of beauty -- 2: Rigor and liberation -- 3: Palaces and gardens -- 4: Classicism and neoclassicism -- 5: Heroes, bodies, and ruins -- 6: New ideas, new subjects -- 7: Women and passions -- 8: Free play of beauty -- 9: Cruel and gloomy beauty -- Chapter 11: Sublime -- 1: New concept of beauty -- 2: Sublime is the echo of a great soul -- 3: Sublime in nature -- 4: Poetics of ruins -- 5: Gothic style in literature -- 6: Edmund Burke -- 7: Kant's sublime.
Chapter 12: Romantic Beauty -- 1: Romantic beauty -- 2: Romantic beauty and the beauty of the old romances -- 3: Vague beauty of Je Ne Sais Quoi -- 4: Romanticism and rebellion -- 5: Truth, myth, and irony -- 6: Gloomy, grotesque, melancholic -- 7: Lyrical romanticism -- Chapter 13: Religion Of Beauty -- 1: Aesthetic religion -- 2: Dandyism -- 3: Flesh, death, and the devil -- 4: Art for art's sake -- 5: Against the grain -- 6: Symbolism -- 7: Aesthetic mysticism -- 8: Ecstasy within things -- 9: Impression -- Chapter 14: New Object -- 1: Solid Victorian beauty -- 2: Iron and glass: the new beauty -- 3: From Art Nouveau to Art Deco -- 4: Organic beauty -- 5: Articles of everyday use: criticism, commercialization, mass production -- Chapter 15: Beauty Of Machines -- 1: Beautiful machine? -- 2: From antiquity to the Middle Ages -- 3: From the fifteenth century to the Baroque -- 4: Eighteenth and nineteenth centuries -- 5: Twentieth century -- Chapter 16: From Abstract Forms To The Depths Of Material -- 1: Seek his statues among the stones -- 2: Contemporary re-assessment of material -- 3: Ready made -- 4: From reproduced to industrial material to the depths of material -- Chapter 17: Beauty Of The Media -- 1: Beauty of provocation or the beauty of consumption? -- 2: Avant-garde, or the beauty of provocation -- 3: Beauty of consumption -- Bibliographical references of anthology translations -- Index of anthology authors -- Index of artists.
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