Sandro Botticelli's well-known painting, The Birth of Venus has a very particular philosophy of beauty embedded within in. He used the Golden Ratio in his composition. Here's the story behind the painting.
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Works Cited:
Hofstadter, Albert; Kuhns, Richard. Philosophies of Art and Beauty (p. 207). University of Chicago Press. Kindle Edition.
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