The Greek Ideas Of Beauty

A human, animal, landscape, painting, sculpture, sound, and even a feeling can all be beautiful. The Egyptians viewed beauty from many diverse foundations. This includes symbolic, sculptures in the round and various documents. Most of it supports a specific type of beauty, especially in individuals and maybe even more specifically in females. Egyptians mostly used words to express beauty. For example, "n" and "nfr" were two adjectives that were used to describe beautiful things, or beautiful people. “nfr”, which is nefer in modern Egyptological works, was one of the most popular, and is still used in names. The verbs came from nfr include snfr, which means beautifully or beautified. nfrw or nfr, and later bw nfr, may also be used as an abstract idea of beauty.
The Greek word - kaloskagathos - meant being gorgeous to look at, and hence being a good person. This would only refer to the men. A completely different event happens to women. The Greeks described women as kalon kakon or “the beautiful-evil thing”. Women were beautiful because they were evil, and evil because they were beautiful. This is the reverse in Egyptian thinking where women were seen as purely beautiful because beauty was a gift from the gods. Art historian Heinrich Wölfflin says the classical conception of beauty is that of perfect proportion. The classical beginning shows that beauty has various elaborate yet symbolic parts that all come together to equal a whole. This thought relies on harmony, symmetry, and similar concepts which is a primitive Western conception of beauty. It is also embodied in classical and neo-classical architecture, sculpture, literature, and music wherever they