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E D I T E D BY
ON
BEAUTY
UMBERTO
ECO
Translated from the Italian
by Alastair McEwen
Seeker & Warburg LONDON
Published by Seeker & Warburg 2004
468109753
English translation copyright © 2004 by Alastair McEwen
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edited by Umberto Eco and produced by Motta On Line in 2002.
The texts were written by Umberto Eco (the introduction and
chapters 3,4,5,6,11,13,15,16, and 17) and by Girolamo De Michele
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1st edition, September 2004
CONTENIS
Introduction
Comparative Tables
Venus Nude
Adonis Nude
Venus Clothed
Adonis Clothed
Portraits of Venus
Portraits of Adonis
Madonna
Jesus
Kings
Queens
Proportions
1. The Chorus of the Muses
2. The Artist's Idea of Beauty
3. The Beauty of the Philosophers
1. The Gods of Delphi
2. From the Greeks to Nietzsche
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
Number and Music
Architectonic Proportion
The Human Body
The Cosmos and Nature
The Other Arts
Conformity with the Purpose
Proportion in History
Light and Colour
God as Light
Light,Wealth and Poverty
Ornamentation
Colours in Poetry and Mysticism
Colours in Everyday Life
The Symbolism of Colours
Theologians and Philosophers
16
18
20
22
24
26
28
30
32
34
34
37
42
48
53
57
61
Chapter I
The Aesthetic Ideal
in Ancient Greece
Chapter II
Apollonian and Dionysiac
Chapter III
Beauty
as Proportion
and Harmony
64
72
82
86
88
90
99
102
105
111
Chapter IV
Light and Colour
in the Middle Ages
114
118
121
125
131
138
143
148
152
Chapter V
The Beauty of Monsters
1. A Beautiful Representation
of Ugliness
2. Legendary and Marvellous Beings
3. Ugliness in Universal Symbolism
4. Ugliness as a Requirement for Beauty
5. Ugliness as a Natural Curiosity
Chapter
vi
From the Pastourelle
to the Donna Angelicata
Chapter
VII
1.
2.
3.
4.
1.
Sacred and Profane Love
Ladies and Troubadours
Ladies and Knights
Poets and Impossible Loves
154
161
164
167
177
180
184
188
193
200
206
209
214
218
225
226
229
233
237
241
242
244
249
252
259
264
269
275
278
281
285
288
290
294
299
304
310
Magic Beauty
between the Fifteenth
and Sixteenth Centuries
chapter
VIII
Ladies and Heroes
Beauty between Invention
and Imitation of Nature
2. The Simulacrum
3. Suprasensible Beauty
4. The Venuses
The Ladies...
2. ...and the Heroes
3. Practical Beauty...
4. ...and Sensual Beauty
1.
1.
chapter
ix
From Grace
to Disquieting Beauty
2.
3.
4.
s.
6.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
Towards a Subjective
and Manifold Beauty
Mannerism
The Crisis of Knowledge
Melancholy
Agudeza,Wit,Conceits...
Reaching Out for the Absolute
The Dialectic of Beauty
Rigour and Liberation
Palaces and Gardens
Classicism and Neoclassicism
Heroes, Bodies and Ruins
New Ideas, New Subjects
Women and Passions
The Free Play of Beauty
Cruel and Gloomy Beauty
Chapter
x
Reason and Beauty
Chapter
xi
The Sublime
1. A New Concept of Beauty
2. The Sublime is the Echo
of a Great Soul
3. The Sublime in Nature
4. The Poetics of Ruins
5. The'Gothic'Style in Literature
6. Edmund Burke
7. Kant's Sublime
1. Romantic Beauty
2. Romantic Beauty
and the Beauty of the Old Romances
3. The Vague Beauty of the 'Je Ne Sais Quoi'
Chapter
xn
Romantic Beauty

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