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... to do with a whole substance, rather than with a substantial form. He expounded on three criterion of beauty namely: integrity (integritas), proportion (consonantia) and clarity (claritas). "Beauty includes three conditions: integrity is perfection (integritas sire perfectio). Since things which are imperfect are by that very fact ugly, due proportion and harmony (debita proportion sire consonantia) and tastly brightness or clarity (claritas), whence things are called beautiful which have a bright color."1 Integrity means the presence in a structured sum total of all the parts which coincide in defining it as that which is. It is revealed here that it is a quality associated with something that is complete and uncorrupted. Beauty is the similar to goodness. Goodness represents desirability of oneself while beauty is what the people see. Therefore beauty is that which is enviable as perceived by senses. Art in itself is extensive if it is sufficient ...
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