study of beauty

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A synthesis of these tendencies in the study of beauty is needed, in which the results of modern psychology shall help to make intelligible a philosophical theory of beauty.

From The Psychology of Beauty by Howes, Ethel Dench Puffer

Such is the influence of this constant study of beauty in nature and art.

From The Critic in the Orient by Fitch, George Hamlin

This led inevitably to imitation, over-refinement of style, and conscious study of beauty, resulting in mannerism and affectation.

From A Text-Book of the History of Painting by Van Dyke, John Charles

The study of beauty has several very formidable enemies. 

From The Real Gladstone an Anecdotal Biography by Ritchie, J. Ewing (James Ewing)

It had occurred, however, to Roemer Visscher only that the path of literary honour lay, not along the utilitarian road cut out by Maerlant and Boendale, but in the study of beauty and antiquity.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" by Various