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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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Ronald Hübner, Emily Ufken
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2022-03-01
Series:i-Perception
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/20416695221087738