title: [Art and nose].
abstract: The author describes over a period of five thousands years the evolution of the esthetical criteria of the artists, painters and sculptors who have represented the nasal pyramid. Starting from prehistorical times to great civilisations: Roman and Greek, then to the age of the Renaissance, and to end in the modern times with impressionism, cubism and surrealism. As a conclusion, he draws a parallel between rhinoplasty and the different technical evolutions, according to the esthetic patterns of the rhinoplasticians and the different human qualities they should have to master this technique.
authors.affiliation: Centre Hospitalier de Bastia, Falconaja, BP 680, F-20604 Bastia, France. nathazara@tele2.fr
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Canale
mesh_terms: D001154:Art / Q000266:history*; D004954:Esthetics; D049668:History, 15th Century; D049669:History, 16th Century; D049670:History, 17th Century; D049671:History, 18th Century; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049690:History, Ancient; D006801:Humans; D009666:Nose / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000601:surgery; D012225:Rhinoplasty