Aesthetics as a distinct philosophical branch did not exist during the Middle Ages. Medieval aesthetics as a subject comprises studies of key medieval thinkers by modern writers such as Umberto Eco and … 展开

St Augustine
The aesthetics of St Augustine are less theological than that of subsequent thinkers due in part to his … 展开

A systematic aesthetics of light began to appear in the thirteenth century. Light was believed to endow physical objects with nobility and beauty because it 'constitut[ed] the essence of colour and at the same [was] the external condition of its visibility,' according to … 展开

• Wladyslaw Tatarkiewicz (1970). Mouton (ed.). History of Aesthetics. The Hague.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) … 展开

Medieval aesthetics largely derive from the writings of Plato, Aristotle and Plotinus, when viewed through the lens of medieval Biblical exegesis.
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Due to the enduring legacy of the Pythagoreans and Boethius' De Musica, musical principles of proportion were applied to the arts more generally, but with prominence in music and … 展开

J. Huizinga points to the importance of symbolism during the Middle Ages as a way of comprehending the purpose of existence and therefore, it … 展开