It is very difficult to answer questions about beauty, knowing the changes and modifications that its canons and ideals have undergone throughout history. The beautiful is the oldest category and from which all those that came later were formed, from the sublime to the interesting. In the European aesthetic tradition, it is conceived, therefore, as the original and proper category of classical and Renaissance art, in which aesthetic and moral judgments were not yet understood separately. However, since the emergence of Aesthetics as an academic discipline, other categories have become necessary to explain the different feelings aroused by new forms of art. In this sense, the classical category of the beautiful has not only derived from others, but it itself has undergone several modifications, changing in connotation and meaning, always depending on the context. This article takes a tour of the variations of beauty from the 18th century to the present, with the aim of pointing out the most relevant transformations in this category. Thus, the conclusion will be reached that beauty has gone through several stages, always in a process of fragmentation, so we cannot speak of one, but of multiple forms of beauty.