...association of ideas; and that, in creatures of the same species, beauty is the medium or centre of all its various forms. To conclude, then, by way of corollary:...invariable and general ideas of nature, produces beauty, he must, by regarding minute particularities and accidental discriminations, deviate from the universal...

...association of ideas; and that, in creatures of the same species, beauty is the medium or centre of all its various forms. To conclude, then, by way of corollary:...invariable and general ideas of nature, produces beauty, he must, by regarding minute particularities and accidental discriminations, deviate from the universal...

...association of ideas; and that, in creatures of the same species, beauty is the medium or centre of all its various forms. To conclude, then, by way of corollary:...invariable and general ideas of nature, produces beauty, he must, by regarding minute particularities and accidental discriminations, deviate from the universal...

...Sir Joshua Reynolds most influentially legislates this equation of the detail with natural defect: "If it has been proved, that the painter, by attending...invariable and general ideas of nature, produces beauty, he must, by regarding minute particularities, and accidental discriminations, deviate from the universal...

...Explicitly equating "beauty" with the "general idea," and "deformity" with the "particular," Reynolds wrote: "If it has been proved that the Painter, by attending...invariable and general ideas of Nature, produces beauty, he must, by regarding minute particularities, and accidental discriminations, deviate from the universal...