aesthetic canon

Genetics laboratories will prepare master blueprints according to the aesthetic canons laid down by the government.

These ratios are used in veristic depictions of the figure, and also become part of an aesthetic canon within a culture.

The scenery, judged by an ordinary aesthetic canon, is more than commonly beautiful; yet there is no influx of artists or summer tourists.

These group of paintings were"largely faithful to the aesthetic canons of the Italianate Mannerists".

A canon in the sphere of visual arts and aesthetics, or an aesthetic canon, is a rule for proportions, so as to produce a harmoniously formed figure.

Poussin saw in it an aesthetic canon of ideal proportions and in 1683, Gérard Audran included it in his collection of engravings representing the Proportions of the human body measured from the most beautiful statues of antiquity, meant for young sculptors.

But such fecund activity, life-enhancing though it may be, is exactly what you don't want to know about if you are trying to shape an aesthetic canon, or a viable market, or a scientific taxonomy that will allow you to explain the world in a certain way, to keep certain hierarchies intact.