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Picturesque

Picturesque is an aesthetic ideal introduced into English cultural debate in 1782 by William Gilpin in Observations on the River Wye, and Several Parts of South Wales, etc. Relative Chiefly to Picturesque Beauty; made in the Summer of the Year 1770, a practical book which instructed England's leisured travellers to examine "the face of a country by the…

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Historical background and development

Picturesque-hunters

The Far East in the discourse on the picturesque

Picturesque architecture

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Picturesque

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related to Notable works · 49
Picturesque → Added, An Analytical Inquiry, An Essay, Architecture, Beautiful, Brown, Capability, Christopher Hussey, Compared, Doctor Syntax, Dorothy Wordsworth, Humphry Repton, Improving Real Landscape, In, John Ruskin, Knight, Lancelot, London, On Landscape Painting, On Picturesque Beauty
related to background · 27
Picturesque → Both, Claude Lorrain, Dutch, Dutchmen, English, Europe, For, French, Goyen, Highly, Italian, Italy, Jacob, Jan, Lomazzo, Mary, Poussin, Renaissance, Ridolfi, Rome
related to The Far East in the discourse on the picturesque · 26
Picturesque → Alexander Pope, Babylon, China, Chinese, Chineses, Cyrus, Epicurus, Europe, Far East, Far Eastern, For, Gardens, His, Horace Walpole, Idea's, Imaginations, Japan, Of Gardening, Paradise, Sharawaggi
related to Picturesque architecture · 17
Picturesque → Architectural Review, Authors, Britain, Cronin Hastings, Exterior Furnishing, Gordon Cullen, Hubert, In, James Maude Richards, John Betjeman, John Piper, Making Urban Landscap, Nikolaus Pevsner, Paul Nash, Sharawaggi, The Art, Townscape
related to External links · 16
Picturesque → An Examination, Bunk, Concordia University, Debunking, John Macarthur The Picturesque, Keith Waddington, KnightPictures, Landow, Landscape Style, Masters Thesis, Picturesque Influence, Poetry, Price, Repton, Ruskin, Turner's
related to Picturesque-hunters · 11
Picturesque → Claude Lorrain, Edmund Burke, Gilpin, Lake District, On Picturesque Beauty, Picturesque Travel, Picturesque-hunters, Sketching Landscape, These, Three Essays, William Gilpin
is a · 2
Picturesque → aesthetic ideal introduced into English cultural debate in 1782 by William Gilpin in Observations on the River Wye, visual qualities of Nature suitable for a picture

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landscape beauty sharawadgi sublime aesthetic beautiful william temple gilpin century two word painting gardens japanese design english nature term could

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Picturesqueis aaesthetic ideal introduced into English cultural debate in 1782 by William Gilpin in Observations on the River Wye0.90text
Picturesqueis avisual qualities of Nature suitable for a picture0.90text
Vasariinstance ofHistorical background and developmentThe picturesque as a topic in discourse came up in the late Renaissance in Italy where the term pittoresco began to be used in art writing a…0.80text
Picturesquerelated to backgroundThe0.60section
Picturesquerelated to backgroundRenaissance0.60section
Picturesquerelated to backgroundItaly0.60section
Picturesquerelated to backgroundItalian0.60section
Picturesquerelated to backgroundVasari0.60section
Picturesquerelated to backgroundLomazzo0.60section
Picturesquerelated to backgroundRidolfi0.60section
Picturesquerelated to backgroundDutch0.60section
Picturesquerelated to backgroundHighly0.60section

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