Beauty: illustrated by an analysis and classification of beauty in woman : with a critical view of the hypotheses of Hume, Hogarth, Burke, Knight, Alison, etc., and the hypotheses of beauty in sculpture and painting, by Leonardo da Vinci, Winckelmann, Mengs, Bossi, etc / by Alexander Walker.

  • Walker, Alexander.
Date:
1852
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Credit: Beauty: illustrated by an analysis and classification of beauty in woman : with a critical view of the hypotheses of Hume, Hogarth, Burke, Knight, Alison, etc., and the hypotheses of beauty in sculpture and painting, by Leonardo da Vinci, Winckelmann, Mengs, Bossi, etc / by Alexander Walker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    * % The pointing out and explanation of various defects in beauty.—Chapter xx. The pointing out and explanation of various external indications of figure, beauty, mind, habits, and age.—Chapter xxi. The writer may possibly be mistaken as to the originality of one or two of these points; but, leaving the critical reader to deduct as many of these as it is in bis power to do, enough of novelty would remain for the writer’s ambition, in this respect, if he had done no more than exposed the errors of Burke, Knight, Alison, &c., and established the true doctrine of beauty, in the first chapters,—given an analysis and classification of beauty in woman, in the chapters which follow,—and applied this to the fine arts, and solved the difficulty of Leonardo da Yinci, &c., in the last chapters.