In Search of Beauty

  • Romans
    100 BCE

    Romans

    The believed that beauty was derived from balance and symmetry.
  • Medieval
    400

    Medieval

    In the Medieval conception of the world, beauty itself came from God.
  • Romanticism

    Romanticism

    Their conception was: "beauty is truth, truth beauty".
  • Enlightenment

    Enlightenment

    For William Hogarth paintings should have an s-shaped curve that evoked movement and directed viewer´s attention to be beautiful. But, for Joshua Reynolds beauty only required simplicity.
  • Twentieth Century

    Twentieth Century

    In this century they thought that true beauty required abstraction.

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