claritas

As we have seen, claritas is one of the central qualities of beauty, and it was embodied in the stained glass window, which glowed with colour like precious stones as light shone through it.

The Theology and Metaphysics of the Gothic Cathedral - part 4 & conclusion 2009

The lux nova is both Christ and the physical light that filled his new church, and its brightness is a reference to claritas, and so, to its beauty.

The Theology and Metaphysics of the Gothic Cathedral - part 3 2009

St Thomas Aquinas has said: “ad pulchritudinem tria requiruntur”, and these three requirements of beauty are integrity, right proportion or harmony, and claritas (brightness, vividness).

The Theology and Metaphysics of the Gothic Cathedral - part 3 2009

ORIGIN Middle English in the sense glory, divine splendor : from Latin claritas, from clarus 'clear.'

Mindfulness, Clarity and Self-Awareness BunnyKissd 2007

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They did it in connection with the old idea derived from Pseudo-Dionysius that beauty consists in both the right proportion and luster (claritas, splendor) of objects.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas W. TATARKIEWICZ 1968

He is the author of the dual criterion of “proportion and luster” (proportio et claritas), a conception of beauty which also had many followers.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas W. TATARKIEWICZ 1968

At quibus optimum quiddam claritas uidetur, hi uel belli uel pacis artibus gloriosum nomen propagare festinant.

The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908

Nam eadem sufficientia summa est, eadem summa potentia, reuerentia quoque, claritas ac uoluptas beatitudo esse iudicatur.

The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908