History of beauty / edited by Umberto Eco ; translated by Alastair McEwen.
Language: English Original language: Italian Publication details: New York : Rizzoli, 2005.Edition: 2nd edDescription: 438 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cmISBN:- 0847826465
- Storia della bellezza. English.
- BH81 .H57 2005
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"This volume, with supplements and adaptations, derives from the CD-rom Bellezza, storia di un'idea dell'occident, edited by Umberto Eco, produced by Motta On Line in 2002"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 431) and indexes.
The aesthetic ideal in ancient Greece -- Apollonian and dionysiac -- Beauty as proportion and harmony -- Light and color in the Middle Ages -- The beauty of monsters -- From the pastourelle to the Donna Angelicata -- Magic beauty between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries -- Ladies and heroes -- From grace to disquieting beauty -- Reason and beauty -- The sublime -- Romantic beauty -- The religion of beauty -- The new object -- The beauty of machines -- From abstract forms to the depths of materials -- The beauty of the media.
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