On beauty

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"On Beauty is neither a history of art, nor a history of aesthetics, but rather Umberto Eco draws on the histories of both these disciplines to define the ideas of beauty that have informed sensibilities from the classical world to modern times."--Jacket. Ch. I. The aesthetic ideal in ancient Greece -- Ch. II. Apollonian and Dionysiac -- Ch. III. Beauty as proportion and harmony -- Ch. IV. Light and colour in the Middle Ages -- Ch. V. The beauty of monsters -- Ch. VI. From the Pastourelle to the Donna Angelicata -- Ch. VII. Magic beauty between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries -- Ch. VIII. Ladies and heroes -- Ch. IX. From grace to disquieting beauty -- Ch. X. Reason and beauty -- Ch. XI. The sublime -- Ch. XII. Romantic beauty -- Ch. XIII. The religion of beauty -- Ch. XIV. The new object -- Ch. XV. The beauty of machines -- Ch. XVI. From abstract forms to the depths of material -- Ch. XVII. The beauty of the media.