As the Middle Ages acquired new delicate body expressions in Art with Gothic, the artists felt more at ease to experience new gestures of the human body. For that, Christ continued to be the aesthetic reference. The theme of the Descent from the Cross served as the basis for this bodily experimentalism. Our proposal is to ascertain the different nuances of these new expressions between 14^th and 15^th centuries.

Étude iconographique du Retable de Saint Jean-Baptiste (1425-1430), attribué au peintre gothique catalan Bernat Martorell (1390-1452), afin d’analyser les représentations imagétiques du corps du saint, ses expressions faciales, ses gestes.

The concept of Beauty and its consequent aesthetic enjoyment varied according the transformations of human societies in time. Our purpose is present the aesthetic of the body that some medieval philosophers developed in his treatises and some representations in medieval images.