Is Hogarth’s ‘Line of Beauty’ really the most beautiful? An empirical answer after more than 250 years
Since the Renaissance, different line types have been distinguished by artists and art theorists. However, it took another hundreds of years until the British artist William Hogarth attributed different degrees of beauty to them. Particularly, in his book “The Analysis of Beauty” (1753) he depicted...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2022-03-01
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Series: | i-Perception |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1177/20416695221087738 |