Taming the Sculptress: Roman Beauty and Marble Love in Alcott’s Art Tales

Animals in Roman life and art

Buying Beauty: On Prices and Returns in the Art Market

This paper investigates the evolution of prices and returns in the art market since the middle of the previous century. We first compile a comprehensive list of more than 10,000 artists and then build a dataset that contains information on more than 1.1 million auction sales of paintings, prints, and works on paper. We perform an extensive hedonic regression analysis that includes unique price-...

Perceptions of beauty in Renaissance art.

The Renaissance was a cultural revolution that spread from Florence, in 1400, throughout Italy and into the rest of Europe. Its impetus was the philosophy of Humanism, which strove to resurrect and emulate the literature and art of the ancient Greeks and Romans. Artists had previously been limited to formulaic religious iconography. They now began to reproduce descriptions of classical painting...

qadi said qummi on the definition of art and beauty

it is widely held that although very few works by muslim philosophers deal exclusively with art and beauty, nonetheless specific discussions on these subjects can be extracted from their works. this is certainly true in the case of qadi said qummi, who gives a separate treatment of art and beauty in his commentary on the fourth chapter of the uthulojia (the theology of aristotle). the essential...

The Offence of Beauty in Modern Western Art Music

In recent decades, beauty has become a largely unfashionable, even offensive notion within art and philosophy. As Eastern Orthodox theologian, David Bentley Hart, has pointed out, this offence has a twofold sense. Firstly, the ‘beautiful’ has been dismissed as philosophically insignificant in comparison to the ‘sublime’ by an intellectual tradition tracing itself back to Immanuel Kant’s Critiqu...