If a contemporary looks at the figure of Phryne in the photo, he will understand that according to the current parameters, she is far from ideal. The female figure of that time is more massive than we are used to seeing now on the pages of glossy magazines. But the chest, in comparison with the lush bottom, looks small; modern women hardly consider this combination to be the standard of beauty.
AT Middle Ages a woman was generally considered an instrument of the devil, an extra temptation and temptation, and therefore was recognized as an inferior being compared to a man.
The ideal of a woman of the Middle Ages: an elongated face, a high forehead, a small mouth and large eyes. To make the face look longer, women shaved the hair above the forehead along the growth line and got rid of the eyebrows. Some did not stop there and plucked their eyelashes. The body of an ideal medieval woman is rickety, without flashy forms. To us, the women of those times would have looked painfully thin.