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100 BCE
Romans
The believed that beauty was derived from balance and symmetry. -
400
Medieval
In the Medieval conception of the world, beauty itself came from God. -
Romanticism
Their conception was: "beauty is truth, truth beauty". -
Enlightenment
For William Hogarth paintings should have an s-shaped curve that evoked movement and directed viewer´s attention to be beautiful. But, for Joshua Reynolds beauty only required simplicity. -
Twentieth Century
In this century they thought that true beauty required abstraction.