History of beauty / 
edited by Umberto Eco ; translated by Alastair McEwen. 
 - 2nd ed. 
 - New York :  Rizzoli,  2005. 
 - 438 p. :  ill. (some col.) ;  25 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 431) and indexes. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> "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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0847826465 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Aesthetics--History.<br/>Art--Philosophy--History.<br/>Art--History.<br/>Literature--History.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BH81  / .H57 2005