by Umberto Eco · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780300042078
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«Art and Beauty in the Middle Ages» is Umberto Eco's essay on aesthetics, published by Yale University Press in paperback (134 pages, in English).
Umberto Eco examines how beauty and art were understood in medieval culture, from the patristic era to the beginnings of the Renaissance. He connects theology, science, poetry, and mysticism to show the relationship between aesthetic theories and artistic practice, and explains notions such as aesthetic pleasure, taste, and natural or artificial beauty.
English translation by Hugh Bredin; the original Italian work is «Arte e bellezza nell'estetica medievale».
Recommended for non-specialist readers interested in philosophy, art history, and medieval culture.
Umberto Eco was an Italian medievalist, philosopher, semiotician, novelist, cultural critic, and political and social commentator. In English, he is best known for his popular 1980 novel The Name of the Rose, a historical mystery combining semiotics in fiction with biblical analysis, medieval studies and literary theory, as well as Foucault's Pendulum, his 1988 novel which touches on the history of occultism and its contemporary interpretation through the new age movement.
