Branch of philosophy dealing with the nature of art, beauty, and taste

concept

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.

Venus at her toilet, assisted by the three Graces; she sits on the lap of one of them, another combs her hair, and two cupids hold a mirror in which she admires her own beauty. Engraving by M. Dorigny, 1651, after S. Vouet.

Apsara with pet deer. Watercolour drawing.

Furniture in human and animal forms. Coloured etching by S. de Wilde, 1807, after "Sylvester Scrutiny".

Analysis of beauty. Plate II.

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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Esthetics

Images from the collections

Images referencing Esthetics

Works from the collections

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.

Esthetics

Images from the collections

Images referencing Esthetics

Works from the collections

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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