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| Introduction | |
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| Comparative Tables | |
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| Nude Venus | |
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| Nude Adonis | |
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| Clothed Venus | |
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| Clothed Adonis | |
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| Face and Hair of Venus | |
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| Face and Hair of Adonis | |
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| Madonna | |
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| Jesus | |
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| Kings | |
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| Queens | |
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| Proportions | |
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| The Aesthetic Ideal in Ancient Greece | |
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| The Chorus of the Muses | |
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| The Artist's Idea of Beauty | |
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| The Beauty of the Philosophers | |
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| Apollonian and Dionysiac | |
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| The Gods of Delphi | |
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| From the Greeks to Nietzsche | |
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| Beauty as Proportion and Harmony | |
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| Number and Music | |
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| Architectonic Proportion | |
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| The Human Body | |
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| The Cosmos and Nature | |
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| The Other Arts | |
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| Conformity with the Purpose | |
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| Proportion in History | |
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| Light and Color in the Middle Ages | |
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| Light and Color | |
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| God as Light | |
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| Light, Wealth, and Poverty | |
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| Ornamentation | |
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| Color in Poetry and Mysticism | |
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| Color in Everyday Life | |
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| The Symbolism of Color | |
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| Theologians and Philosophers | |
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| The Beauty of Monsters | |
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| A Beautiful Portrayal of Ugliness | |
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| Legendary and Marvelous Beings | |
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| Ugliness in Universal Symbolism | |
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| Ugliness as a Requirement for Beauty | |
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| Ugliness as a Natural Curiosity | |
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| From the Pastourelle to the Donna Angelicata | |
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| Sacred and Profane Love | |
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| Ladies and Troubadours | |
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| Ladies and Knights | |
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| Poets and Impossible Loves | |
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| Magic Beauty between the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries | |
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| Beauty Between Invention and Imitation of Nature | |
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| The Simulacrum | |
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| Suprasensible Beauty | |
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| The Venuses | |
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| Ladies and Heroes | |
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| The Ladies... | |
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| ...and the Heroes | |
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| Practical Beauty... | |
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| ...and Sensual Beauty | |
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| From Grace to Disquieting Beauty | |
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| Toward a Subjective and Manifold Beauty | |
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| Mannerism | |
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| The Crisis of Knowledge | |
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| Melancholy | |
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| Agudeza, Wit, Conceits... | |
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| Reaching Out for the Absolute | |
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| Reason and Beauty | |
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| The Dialectic of Beauty | |
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| Rigor and Liberation | |
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| Palaces and Gardens | |
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| Classicism and Neoclassicism | |
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| Heroes, Bodies, and Ruins | |
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| New Ideas, New Subjects | |
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| Women and Passions | |
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| The Free Play of Beauty | |
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| Cruel and Gloomy Beauty | |
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| The Sublime | |
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| A New Concept of Beauty | |
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| The Sublime Is the Echo of a Great Soul | |
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| The Sublime in Nature | |
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| The Poetics of Ruins | |
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| The "Gothic" Style in Literature | |
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| Edmund Burke | |
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| Kant's Sublime | |
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| Romantic Beauty | |
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| Romantic Beauty | |
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| Romantic Beauty and the Beauty of the Old Romances | |
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| The Vague Beauty of Je Ne Sais Quoi | |
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| Romanticism and Rebellion | |
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| Truth, Myth, and Irony | |
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| Gloomy, Grotesque, Melancholic | |
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| Lyrical Romanticism | |
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| The Religion of Beauty | |
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| Aesthetic Religion | |
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| Dandyism | |
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| Flesh, Death, and the Devil | |
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| Art for Art's Sake | |
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| Against the Grain | |
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| Symbolism | |
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| Aesthetic Mysticism | |
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| The Ecstasy Within Things | |
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| The Impression | |
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| The New Object | |
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| Solid Victorian Beauty | |
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| Iron and Glass: The New Beauty | |
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| From Art Nouveau to Art Deco | |
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| Organic Beauty | |
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| Articles of Everyday Use: Criticism, Commercialization, Mass Production | |
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| The Beauty of Machines | |
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| The Beautiful Machine? | |
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| From Antiquity to the Middle Ages | |
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| From the Fifteenth Century to the Baroque | |
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| The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries | |
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| The Twentieth Century | |
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| From Abstract Forms to the Depths of Material | |
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| "Seek His Statues among the Stones" | |
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| The Contemporary Re-Assessment of Material | |
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| The Ready Made | |
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| From Reproduced to Industrial Material to the Depths of Material | |
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| The Beauty of the Media | |
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| The Beauty of Provocation or the Beauty of Consumption? | |
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| The Avant-Garde, or the Beauty of Provocation | |
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| The Beauty of Consumption | |
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| Bibliographical References of Anthology Translations | |
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| Index of Anthology Authors | |
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| Index of Artists | |