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“Beauty in the European sense has always had a premeditated quality to it.
We've always had an aesthetic intention and a long-range plan. That's what
enabled Western man to spend decades building a Gothic cathedral or a Renaissance
piazza. The beauty of New York rests on a completely different base. It's
unintentional. It arose independent of human des
... See moreWhat makes something beautiful? — Schiller & Architecture
youtube.comA une esthétique idéaliste qui ne considérait comme belle que la manifestation de la forme idéale, du canon de la proportion, se substitue, aussi bien chez Aristote que chez Marc Aurèle et à travers toute l'époque hellénistique, une esthétique réaliste pour laquelle la réalité vivante, dans sa nudité, dans son horreur peut-être, est plus belle que
... See morePierre Hadot • La Citadelle intérieure : Introduction aux Pensées de Marc Aurèle (Essais) (French Edition)
healthy alternative to the eternal rule of ugliness in our time: promote nature, beauty, physical fitness, the preservation of high traditions of literature and art.
Bronze Age Pervert • Bronze Age Mindset
Roman people had a very strict, aesthetic concept of physical appearance. They had their own unique style, which they called cultus. Cultus involved body washing, hairstyling, beard trimming, and especially, eating adequately. To suspend one’s body cultus demonstrated self-neglect. Gluttony was considered a disgrace, and obesity a humiliating weakn
... See moreOri Hofmekler • The Warrior Diet: Switch on Your Biological Powerhouse For High Energy, Explosive Strength, and a Leaner, Harder Body
Athenian sculpture and painting revered the human form, proudly displaying its naked magnificence and finding in its geometrical forms echoes of the fundamental harmonies of nature, tradition was thus begun that would climax in the Renaissance image of ‘Vitruvian Man’, the representation of the naked male figure inscribed at the centre of the cosmo
... See moreRoy Porter • The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity (The Norton History of Science)
Beauty is one of the most enduring themes of Western philosophy, going all the way back to Vitruvius’ three laws of architecture: firmitas, utilitas, venustas (solidity, utility, beauty). But when I was in architecture school, no one talked about beauty in architecture because it was considered too subjective. What was import... See more
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MediterAsian is how I eat every day, with my food choices inspired by the traditions that span these cultures.