Ch. I. aesthetic ideal in Ancient Greece
Ch. II. Apollonian and Dionysiac
Ch. III. Beauty as proportion and harmony
Ch. IV. Light and color in the Middle Ages
Ch. V. beauty of monsters
Ch. VI. From the pastourelle to the Donna Angelicata
Ch. VII. Magic beauty between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries
Ch. VIII. Ladies and heroes
Ch. IX. From grace to disquieting beauty
Ch. XIII. religion of beauty
Ch. XV. beauty of machines
Ch. XVI. From abstract forms to the depths of material
Ch. XVII. beauty of the media.