LESSON FOUR

The Way of Beauty

Explore what it truly means for a piece of art to be called beautiful. Dr. McInerny introduces us to Aquinas’ three criteria for discerning beauty in both art and in the natural world. We discover how these principles can be applied to all forms of mimetic art, and equip ourselves to answer a much-debated question: is beauty something objective, or does it lie in the eye of the beholder?