Beauty Standarts
Looking at the portraits of some of the most beautiful women in history and reading about how impressed were men and how popular they were, it’s pretty hard sometimes to understand why.
Perhaps these women were charismatic, or perhaps the definition beauty was not the same as our guiding today. If you think a woman looks like today, which we consider beautiful and quickly compare with Mary Stuart, who became queen of Scotland in 1542, we will understand more easily how related concepts of beauty have changed over time, so there is a review of the standards imposed by society.
It is said that theory according to which women should be beautiful and powerful men, is the result of several centuries of evolution. In ancient times, the most important aspect in the choice of partner was health. Men to cope with hunting and family support, had to be tall and have a large muscle mass. Women, on the other hand, to be able to lead a task to an end and to cope with birth needed, wide hips and large breasts. Therefore, in a time when the sick had little chance of survival, beauty was a healthy body, able to meet vital needs.
Until in the century of Pericles, fifth century BC, when Athens won a great development, becomes the cultural, political and economic center of Greece, there was no clear definition of beauty. Before painting and sculpture to develop massive beauty was attributed to other virtues such as truth, loyalty, harmony. However, when artists began to paint or write, began to outline some features that, if a person or an object had, they deserved to be called “beautiful”.
Greek philosophers were the first people who asked what makes a person beautiful. Plato, who saw beauty as a result of symmetry and harmony, created the “golden proportion” in which, among other things, the ideal face width was considered as representing two thirds of its length, and the face must be perfectly symmetrical. Now, after more than 2,000 years, scientists have tested the theory of
Perhaps these women were charismatic, or perhaps the definition beauty was not the same as our guiding today. If you think a woman looks like today, which we consider beautiful and quickly compare with Mary Stuart, who became queen of Scotland in 1542, we will understand more easily how related concepts of beauty have changed over time, so there is a review of the standards imposed by society.
It is said that theory according to which women should be beautiful and powerful men, is the result of several centuries of evolution. In ancient times, the most important aspect in the choice of partner was health. Men to cope with hunting and family support, had to be tall and have a large muscle mass. Women, on the other hand, to be able to lead a task to an end and to cope with birth needed, wide hips and large breasts. Therefore, in a time when the sick had little chance of survival, beauty was a healthy body, able to meet vital needs.
Until in the century of Pericles, fifth century BC, when Athens won a great development, becomes the cultural, political and economic center of Greece, there was no clear definition of beauty. Before painting and sculpture to develop massive beauty was attributed to other virtues such as truth, loyalty, harmony. However, when artists began to paint or write, began to outline some features that, if a person or an object had, they deserved to be called “beautiful”.
Greek philosophers were the first people who asked what makes a person beautiful. Plato, who saw beauty as a result of symmetry and harmony, created the “golden proportion” in which, among other things, the ideal face width was considered as representing two thirds of its length, and the face must be perfectly symmetrical. Now, after more than 2,000 years, scientists have tested the theory of