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Spotlight
Beauty works objectivity, aesthetics & design (Mark Rigley, TEDxKanata)
Reference
Dictionary
beauty : the quality or aggregate of qualities in a person or thing that gives pleasure to the senses or pleasurably exalts the mind or spirit — Webster
Free Dictionary, Wiktionary, OneLook
Thesaurus
Roget’s II (Thesaurus.com), Merriam-Webster Thesaurus, Visuwords
Encyclopedia
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. It is often listed as one of the three fundamental concepts of human understanding besides truth and goodness. — Wikipedia
An Overview of Kant & Beauty
Preservation
History
Corruption, wealth and beauty The history of the Venetian gondola (Laura Morelli, TED-Ed)
Museum
Leonardo da Vinci and the Idea of Beauty (Museum of Fine Arts)
Library
WorldCat, Library of Congress, UPenn Online Books, Open Library