In Search of Beauty

By 20050069
  • 100 BCE

    Romans

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

    Medieval

    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.