Survival of Beauty is a visual and reflective essay investigating how art crosses time, resists loss and transforms into new forms of existence. Starting from the discovery of old photogravures of works from a German museum, the author explores the residues and marks left on delicate sheets of silk, which become autonomous images, true palimpsests preserving an aesthetic memory. The book covers the history of the technical reproduction of art — from medieval engraving to the camera, from lithography to digitisation — showing how each stage altered the relationship between original and copy, authenticity and reproduction.