What is Beauty?
The only way that man can really understand the essence of the kind of beauty the Renaissance claimed to love is by understanding Truth and the proper hierarchy of values that flows from it. Dr. Alice Von Hildebrand demonstrates how this is immeasurably aided by the hunt for ever more divine light of the kind that Plato and Augustine inspired.
Taken from: Christianity in the Late Middle Ages-Early Renaissance - 1996 Von Hildebrand Institute