Rene Descartes wrote a treatise on music. It was in fact the earliest thing he is known to have written and which survives for us.
Perhaps it is wrong to pay too much attention to it. Some historians of philosophy write it off as juvenalia.
But it does show us that Descartes was on his way to becoming ... Descartes. He treats music as a sensory instantiation of mathematics. If the proportions are right, the mathematical problem has been solved properly, and the musical work has to be judged to be good.
We have nothing from Descartes about other arts. But I suspect he would have expressed a low opinion of the literary arts if pressed. He would have said that words are for communication, and that we should take no sensory pleasure from communication, since such pleasure can only be distracting.
As for other arts: painting, architecture, etc., he might have said roughly what he said about music. Insofar as they create forms, they are mathematical. And, since they are mathematical, they too can be judged as getting the math right or wrong.
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