Female beauty [ Taste & Manners ]
… 1 The eighteenth century saw new attitudes to beauty. Beginning to challenge Neo-Platonic ideas about the beautiful body as a manifestation of a beautiful soul. There was a significant rise in the production of materials considering the … pretty regularly with them, is capable of joining the effect of certain agreeable qualities of the mind to those of the body’. 4 While the entwinement of physical beauty with those ‘agreeable qualities’ saw new aesthetic and pseudo-medical … the eighteenth century, these were underpinned by long-established sociocultural beliefs about the relationship between body and soul. 4 . Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful …
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