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A view of the Roman Campagna from Tivoli, evening by Claude Lorrain, 1644–1645. 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 ...
, The expression of gardenesque beauty, in individual trees differs from the picturesque, in being . . at all times regular or symmetrical 1839 — Repton's Landsc. Garden (1840) Introd. 8 This change has given rise to a school we call Gardenesque; the characteristic feature of which is the display of the beauty of trees, and other plants ...
Gilpin advocated approaching the landscape "by the rules of picturesque beauty," [60] which emphasized contrast and variety. Edmund Burke 's A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757) was also an influential text, as was Longinus ' On the Sublime (early A.D., Greece), which was translated into ...
World Atlas, a website publishing content about resources and entertainment on geography, has revealed nine of New York's most picturesque towns, including two within the Finger Lakes region.
Here are the first two letters for each word: WA. WA. CR. FU. QU. GI. LU (SPANGRAM) NYT Strands Spangram Answer Today. Today's spangram answer on Sunday, December 15, 2024, is LUNARPHASE.
Portrait (c. 1799), oil on canvas, of Sir Uvedale Price, 1st Baronet (1747–1829), by Sir Thomas Lawrence, (1769–1830), 76.2 x 63.5 cm. Sir Uvedale Price, 1st Baronet (baptised 14 April 1747 – 14 September 1829), author of the Essay on the Picturesque, As Compared with the Sublime and The Beautiful (1794), was a Herefordshire landowner who was at the heart of the 'Picturesque debate' of ...
An example of the cottage orné – The Hermitage, Hanwell, in Ealing, west London. Cottage orné (French for 'decorated cottage') [1] dates back to a movement of "rustic" stylised cottages of the late 18th and early 19th centuries during the Romantic movement, [2] when some sought to discover a more natural way of living as opposed to the formality of the preceding Baroque and Neoclassical ...
FILE - United States' Stephen Curry (4) celebrates after beating France to win the gold medal during a men's gold medal basketball game at Bercy Arena at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Saturday, Aug ...