1. Term
Beauty (Anglo-French beute, Old French biauté, Vulgar Latin bellitas from Latin bellus, “pretty, charming”; compare German Schönheit; Greek kállos; also Latin pulchritudo) denotes the quality of an object that elicits pleasure in the viewer. The phenomenon includes the natural beauty found, for instance, in landscapes and bodies, and the artificial beauty created in the fine arts. The questi…