TY  - BOOK
AU  - Eco,Umberto
AU  - McEwan,Alastair
TI  - History of beauty
SN  - 0847826465
AV  - BH81 .H57 2005
PY  - 2005///
CY  - New York
PB  - Rizzoli
KW  - Aesthetics
KW  - History
KW  - Art
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Literature
N1  - 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
N2  - "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
ER  -