Ideal, the

Scope note: The aesthetic quality of the permanent, essential, or eternal character of appearances or other phenomena, which is rooted in an idea of perfection or archetype. It is ultimately derived from from Plato's "Theory of Ideas," which holds that perfection is a concept that is only mirrored imperfectly in real life. This perfection was the ideal to which artists sought to strive in certain periods, styles, or contexts. The concept was particularly evident in various periods of antique art, the Renaissance, and in the 17th- and 18th-century art academies throughout Europe.

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