In the Nineteen Sixties, the black is beautiful cultural motion sought to dispel the notion of a Eurocentric concept of beauty. During the Gothic era, the classical aesthetical canon of beauty was rejected as sinful. Later, Renaissance and Humanist thinkers rejected this view, and regarded Beauty news beauty to be the product of rational order and harmonious proportions. Renaissance artists and designers (such as Giorgio Vasari in his “Lives of Artists”) criticised the Gothic period as irrational and barbarian.