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The prevailing Eurocentric concept of beauty has varying results on totally different cultures. Classical philosophy and sculptures of men and women produced according to the Greek philosophers' tenets of perfect human beauty were rediscovered in Renaissance Europe, resulting in a re-adoption of what turned generally identified as a "classical best". During the Gothic period, the classical aesthetical canon of beauty was rejected as sinful. Later, Renaissance and Humanist thinkers rejected this view, and thought of beauty to be the product of rational order and harmonious proportions. Renaissance artists and architects (such as Giorgio Vasari in his "Lives of Artists") criticised the Gothic interval as irrational and barbarian. But this account makes the potential for genuine disagreements about claims of beauty implausible since the same object may produce very totally different ideas in distinct observers. The notion of "taste" can still be used ...