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Is beauty an eternal ideal or a carefully engineered illusion? Beauty: The Body as Artefact takes you on a provocative journey from the ancient rhetoric of Cicero to the haunting portraits of Goya. This collection reveals how the human body has been continuously reshaped through art, medicine, and cosmetics. Discover how master artists and physicians transformed flesh into a masterpiece, proving that natural perfection has always been a product of human ingenuity and cultural obsession.