Beauty
![Rayonnant rose window in Notre Dame de Paris. In Gothic architecture, light was considered the most beautiful revelation of God.](/Images/godic/202502/05/Rozeta_Paryż_notre-dame_chalger5644.jpg")
![The Birth of Venus, by Sandro Botticelli. The goddess Venus is the classical personification of beauty.](/Images/godic/202502/05/Sandro_Botticelli_-_La_nascita_di_Venere_-_Google_Art_Project_-_edited5644.jpg")
![Fresco of a Roman woman from Pompeii, c. 50 AD](/Images/godic/202502/05/Herkulaneischer_Meister_0025644.jpg")
![Chinese jade ornament with flower design, Jin dynasty (1115–1234 AD), Shanghai Museum](/Images/godic/202502/05/Jade_ornament_with_grape_design5644.jpg")
Beauty is a characteristic of an animal, idea, object, person or place that provides a perceptual experience of pleasure or satisfaction. Beauty is studied as part of aesthetics, culture, social psychology and sociology. An "ideal beauty" is an entity which is admired, or possesses features widely attributed to beauty in a particular culture, for perfection.