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Rayonnant rose window in Notre Dame de Paris. In Gothic architecture, light was considered the most beautiful revelation of God.

Beauty (also called prettiness, loveliness or comeliness) is a characteristic of a person, animal, place, object, or idea that provides a perceptual experience of pleasure or satisfaction. Beauty is studied as part of aesthetics, sociology, social psychology, and culture. An "ideal beauty" is an entity which is admired, or possesses features widely attributed to beauty in a particular culture, for perfection.

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• Related: Adornment, Beauty pageant, Glamour (presentation), Sexual capital

BBC Radio 4's In Our Time programme on Beauty BBC Radio 4's In Our Time programme on Beauty www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20050519.shtml - Web

Dictionary of the History of Ideas: Dictionary of the History of Ideas: etext.lib.virginia.edu/cgi-local/DHI/dhi.cgi?id=dv1-28 - Web

beautycheck.de/english beautycheck.de/english www.uni-regensburg.de/.../prototypen.htm - Web

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Eli Siegel's "Is Beauty the Making One of Opposite... Eli Siegel's "Is Beauty the Making One of Opposites?" www.terraingallery.org/IsBeauty.html - Web

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