 For Bosanquet, art is revelatory of the ‘spiritual’ character of the world, and aesthetics is important because it is a disciplined attempt to understand how artists and artworks contribute to this. Bosanquet’s work in aesthetics focused on four principal issues: i) the nature and evolution of aesthetic consciousness, ii) artistic production, iii) aesthetic appreciation—particularly, the experience of beauty, ugliness, and the sublime in art, and iv) the role of art in the development of character. Throughout, Bosanquet writes that he is simply following Hegel’s lead—though his work is clearly a development rather than a repetition of Hegel’s views. 