St. Augustine said of beauty “Beauty is certainly a good gift of God; but that the nice may not suppose it a fantastic good, God dispenses it even to the depraved.” In the Gothic Architecture of the High and Late Middle Ages, gentle was considered the most lovely revelation of God, which was heralded in design. Examples are the stained glass of Gothic Cathedrals including Notre-Dame de Paris and Chartres Cathedral.

He noticed a relationship between the beautiful and advantage, arguing that “Virtue aims on the stunning.” The writing of Xenophon shows a conversation between Socrates and Aristippus. Socrates discerned variations within the conception of the gorgeous, for example, in inanimate objects, the effectiveness of execution of design was a deciding issue on the perception of beauty in something. By the account of Xenophon, Socrates discovered beauty congruent with that to which was defined because the morally good, briefly, he …