Was Goethe ugly?

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Big eyes with upper eyelid exposure, big forehead, big nose, smaller lower third. Yet people never seem to describe him as ugly, and his portraits give very different impressions. Is he haloed by status?

Ugly portraits:





Acceptable looking portraits:




My guess is that Goethe was on the ugly side, but because of his mystical god-like status, no one dares to say it.