Beauty
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- Beauty is commonly described as a feature of objects that makes these objects pleasurable to perceive. Such objects include landscapes, sunsets, humans and works of art. Beauty, together with art and taste, is the main subject of aesthetics, one of the major branches of philosophy. As a positive aesthetic value, it is contrasted with ugliness as its negative counterpart.
One difficulty in understanding beauty is because it has both objective and subjective aspects: it is seen as a property of things but also as depending on the emotional response of observers. Because of its subjective side, beauty is said to be "in the eye of the beholder". It has been argued that the ability on the side of the subject needed to perceive and judge beauty, sometimes referred to as the "sense of taste", can be trained and that the verdicts of experts coincide in the long run. This would suggest that the standards of validity of judgments of beauty are intersubjective, i.e. dependent on a group of judges, rather than fully subjective or fully objective.
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Porträt der Maria Antonia von Branconi
Maria Antonia von Branconi...
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Image: Gleimhaus Halberstadt - CC BY-NC-ND -
Attische Trinkschale mit Sportdarstellungen
Um 500 vor Christus liebten...
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Image: Landesmuseum Württemberg, Stuttgart - CC BY-SA -
Schrank mit verglastem Aufsatz
Dieser Schrank mit verglastem...
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Image: Deutsches Damast- und Frottiermuseum - CC BY-NC-SA -
Analysis of Beauty, Plate 2
Dieses Blatt gehört zu einer...
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Image: Stiftung Händelhaus, Halle - CC BY-NC-SA -
E. H. Jackson als "Beauty" (Schönheit) in Hofmannsthals "Great World Theatre" in Leeds
Ganzfigur, Rollenportrait....
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Image: Freies Deutsches Hochstift / Frankfurter Goethe-Museum - CC BY-NC-SA
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