Beauty: The Body As Artefact : Historical Sources From Cicero to Goya

Beauty: The Body as Artefact traces the history of physical beauty in Western art and thought from antiquity to the eighteenth century. Bringing together foundational texts and newly translated works accompanied by scholarly commentaries, this volume explores how the human body was understood as bot...

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Main Authors: Romana Sammern, Julia Saviello
Format: Book
Published: Routledge 2026
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