ABSTRACT
All of us have seen the artist contributing to render il resplendent the order he has chosen. Everything in the work of art is intentionally adapted to the capacities of the mental powers of the human beings for whom it is made. The first hymns of the Rig-Veda, which are among the most ancient literary documents of humanity, sing of the power of nature in all its forms; the imagination and the mind of the Hindu poets is impressed by the exuberance of the tropical vegetation; they deify nature, and yet take no notice of its beauty. The aesthetic of life and light formulated by Plotinus in his metaphysical principles aroused the enthusiasm of the Alexandrian world, it taught the neo-Platonists and Fathers of the Church, united in the same crusade against the Gnostics, to turn their attention toward the great spectacles of nature.
