Detail from Rembrandt, 'Self Portrait at the Age of 63', 1669
Part of our series of courses, thinking about art: Philosophical approaches to art history.
This fifth session, with Panos Paris, will explore prominent philosophical ideas about beauty in search of an answer to the question: what is beauty? To this end, we will broach more specific questions, notably: is beauty objective or in the eye of the beholder? Is it linked to moral values and the inner qualities of objects, or is it merely skin-deep? In exploring the nature of beauty, we will look at a number of works from the Gallery’s collection for guidance and to elucidate different theories.
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