The branch of philosophy dealing with the nature of the beautiful. It includes beauty, esthetic experience, esthetic judgment, esthetic aspects of medicine, etc.
    

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A traveller being entranced by a witch disguised as a beautiful woman in the Alps. Engraving by T. Stocks after F. Meadows.

Two couples in a dance position. Ink drawing.

It floats : Swan Soap : train up a child in the way it should go / Lever Brothers Limited.

Shukra and Rambha. Chromolithograph by R. Varma, 1894.

Analysis of beauty. Plate I.

Ugly : giving us back our beauty standards / Anita Bhagwandas.

The color of angels : cosmology, gender, and the aesthetic imagination / Constance Classen.

Poesia e pensiero in Albrecht von Haller / Giorgio Tonelli.

Kallos : a treatise on the scientific culture of personal beauty and the cure of ugliness / by a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons.

On ugliness / edited by Umberto Eco ; translated from the Italian by Alastair McEwen.

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Ugly : giving us back our beauty standards / Anita Bhagwandas.

The color of angels : cosmology, gender, and the aesthetic imagination / Constance Classen.

Poesia e pensiero in Albrecht von Haller / Giorgio Tonelli.

Kallos : a treatise on the scientific culture of personal beauty and the cure of ugliness / by a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons.

On ugliness / edited by Umberto Eco ; translated from the Italian by Alastair McEwen.