From Palaeolithic “Venus” up to the anthropomorphic statue-menhir

Dimitriadis, George

doi:10.1016/j.ics.2005.09.151

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“…Cultural influence on beauty assessment is very strong, as testified by different canons that have been adopted through the years to assess female beauty. During the Paleolithic period, statuettes of "Venus", representing women, were sculpted in such a way that they looked full-figured to symbolize fecundation, fertility and regeneration [14]. Ancient Egyptians considered a large forehead and well-defined mandibles attractive [15].…”

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Perspective Morphometric Criteria for Facial Beauty and Proportion Assessment

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Common sense usually considers the assessment of female human attractiveness to be subjective. Nevertheless, in the past decades, several studies and experiments showed that an objective component in beauty assessment exists and can be strictly related, even if it does not match, with proportions of features. Proportions can be studied through analysis of the face, which relies on landmarks, i.e., specific points on the facial surface, which are shared by everyone, and measurements between them. In this work, several measures have been gathered from studies in the literature considering datasets of beautiful women to build a set of measures that can be defined as suggestive of female attractiveness. The resulting set consists of 29 measures applied to a public dataset, the Bosphorus database, whose faces have been both analyzed by the developed methodology based on the expanded set of measures and judged by human observers. Results show that the set of chosen measures is significant in terms of attractiveness evaluation, confirming the key role of proportions in beauty assessment; furthermore, the sorting of identified measures has been performed to identify the most significant canons involved in the evaluation.

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