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Picturesque, the Glossary

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.^[1]

81 relations: A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, Abstraction (art), Adolphe Alphand, Aesthetics, Age of Enlightenment, Alexander Pope, Anna Brownell Jameson, Arcangelo Corelli, Beauty, Big-game hunting, Borrowed scenery, Calvert Vaux, Capability Brown, Celtic Revival, Central Park, Christopher Hussey (historian), Classical architecture, Claude Deruet, Claude glass, Claude Lorrain, Concordia University, Constantijn Huygens, Dorothy Wordsworth, Drawing room, Dutch Golden Age painting, Edmund Burke, Experience, Frederick Law Olmsted, Garden design, George Frideric Handel, Gordon Cullen, Gothic fiction, Grand Tour, H. de C. Hastings, Henry James, Horace Walpole, Humphry Repton, J. M. W. Turner, Jacob van Ruisdael, James Maude Richards, Jan van Goyen, John Betjeman, John Dixon Hunt, John Locke, John P. Macarthur, John Piper (artist), John Ruskin, Kyushu, Lake District, Landscape painting, ... Expand index (31 more) »
1782 introductions
Themes of the Romantic Movement

A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful

A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful is a 1757 treatise (2nd edition 1759) on aesthetics written by Edmund Burke.

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Abstraction (art)

Typically, abstraction is used in the arts as a synonym for abstract art in general.

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Adolphe Alphand

Jean-Charles Adolphe Alphand (26 October 1817 – 6 December 1891) was a French engineer of the Corps of Bridges and Roads.

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Aesthetics

Aesthetics (also spelled esthetics) is the branch of philosophy concerned with the nature of beauty and the nature of taste; and functions as the philosophy of art.

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Age of Enlightenment

The Age of Enlightenment (also the Age of Reason and the Enlightenment) was the intellectual and philosophical movement that occurred in Europe in the 17th and the 18th centuries.

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Alexander Pope (21 May 1688 O.S. – 30 May 1744) was an English poet, translator, and satirist of the Enlightenment era who is considered one of the most prominent English poets of the early 18th century.

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Anna Brownell Jameson

Anna Brownell Jameson (17 May 179417 March 1860) was an Anglo-Irish art historian whose work spanned art and literary criticism, philosophy, travel writing, and feminism.

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Arcangelo Corelli

Arcangelo Corelli (also,,; 17 February 1653 – 8 January 1713) was an Italian composer and violinist of the Baroque era.

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Beauty

Beauty is commonly described as a feature of objects that makes them pleasurable to perceive.

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Big-game hunting

Big-game hunting is the hunting of large game animals for trophies, taxidermy, meat, and commercially valuable animal by-products (such as horns, antlers, tusks, bones, fur, body fat, or special organs).

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Borrowed scenery

Borrowed scenery (借景; Japanese:; Chinese) is the principle of "incorporating background landscape into the composition of a garden" found in traditional East Asian garden design.

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Calvert Vaux

Calvert Vaux FAIA (December 20, 1824 – November 19, 1895) was an English-American architect and landscape designer.

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Capability Brown

Lancelot "Capability" Brown (born c. 1715–16, baptised 30 August 1716 – 6 February 1783) was an English gardener and landscape architect, who remains the most famous figure in the history of the English landscape garden style.

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Celtic Revival

The Celtic Revival (also referred to as the Celtic Twilight) is a variety of movements and trends in the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries that see a renewed interest in aspects of Celtic culture.

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Central Park

Central Park is an urban park between the Upper West Side and Upper East Side neighborhoods of Manhattan in New York City that was the first landscaped park in the United States.

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Christopher Hussey (historian)

Christopher Edward Clive Hussey CBE (21 October 1899 – 20 March 1970) was one of the chief authorities on British domestic architecture of the generation that also included Dorothy Stroud and Sir John Summerson.

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Classical architecture

Classical architecture usually denotes architecture which is more or less consciously derived from the principles of Greek and Roman architecture of classical antiquity, or sometimes more specifically, from De architectura (c. 10 AD) by the Roman architect Vitruvius.

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Claude Deruet

Claude Deruet (1588–1660) was a famous French Baroque painter of the 17th century, from the city of Nancy.

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Claude glass

A Claude glass (or black mirror) is a small mirror, slightly convex in shape, with its surface tinted a dark colour.

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Claude Lorrain

Claude Lorrain (born Claude Gellée, called le Lorrain in French; traditionally just Claude in English; c. 1600 – 23 November 1682) was a French painter, draughtsman and etcher of the Baroque era.

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Concordia University

Concordia University (Université Concordia) is a public English-language research university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

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Constantijn Huygens

Sir Constantijn Huygens, Lord of Zuilichem (4 September 159628 March 1687), was a Dutch Golden Age poet and composer.

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Dorothy Wordsworth

Dorothy Mae Ann Wordsworth (25 December 1771 – 25 January 1855) was an English author, poet, and diarist.

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Drawing room

A drawing room is a room in a house where visitors may be entertained, and an alternative name for a living room.

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Dutch Golden Age painting

Dutch Golden Age painting is the painting of the Dutch Golden Age, a period in Dutch history roughly spanning the 17th century, during and after the later part of the Eighty Years' War (1568–1648) for Dutch independence.

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Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke (12 January 1729 – 9 July 1797) was an Anglo-Irish statesman and philosopher who spent most of his career in Great Britain.

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Experience

Experience refers to conscious events in general, more specifically to perceptions, or to the practical knowledge and familiarity that is produced by these processes.

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Frederick Law Olmsted

Frederick Law Olmsted (April 26, 1822 – August 28, 1903) was an American landscape architect, journalist, social critic, and public administrator.

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Garden design

Garden design is the art and process of designing and creating plans for layout and planting of gardens and landscapes.

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George Frideric Handel

George Frideric (or Frederick) Handel (baptised italic,; 23 February 1685 – 14 April 1759) was a German-British Baroque composer well known for his operas, oratorios, anthems, concerti grossi, and organ concertos.

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Gordon Cullen

Thomas Gordon Cullen (9 August 1914 – 11 August 1994) was an influential British architect and urban designer who was a key motivator in the Townscape movement.

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Gothic fiction

Gothic fiction, sometimes called Gothic horror (primarily in the 20th century), is a loose literary aesthetic of fear and haunting.

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Grand Tour

The Grand Tour was the principally 17th- to early 19th-century custom of a traditional trip through Europe, with Italy as a key destination, undertaken by upper-class young European men of sufficient means and rank (typically accompanied by a tutor or family member) when they had come of age (about 21 years old).

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H. de C. Hastings

Hubert de Cronin Hastings (18 July 1902 – 4 December 1986), often referred to in contemporary works as H. de C. Hastings (and known to friends as "H. de C."),D.

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Henry James

Henry James (–) was an American-British author.

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Horace Walpole

Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford (24 September 1717 – 2 March 1797), better known as Horace Walpole, was an English writer, art historian, man of letters, antiquarian, and Whig politician.

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Humphry Repton

Humphry Repton (21 April 1752 – 24 March 1818) was the last great designer of the classic phase of the English landscape garden, often regarded as the successor to Capability Brown.

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J. M. W. Turner

Joseph Mallord William Turner (23 April 177519 December 1851), known in his time as William Turner, was an English Romantic painter, printmaker and watercolourist.

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Jacob van Ruisdael

Jacob Isaackszoon van Ruisdael (1629 – 10 March 1682) was a Dutch painter, draughtsman, and etcher.

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James Maude Richards

Sir James Maude Richards, CBE FRIBA (13 August 1907 – 27 April 1992) was a British architectural writer.

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Jan van Goyen

Jan Josephszoon van Goyen (13 January 1596 – 27 April 1656) was a Dutch landscape painter.

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John Betjeman

Sir John Betjeman, (28 August 190619 May 1984) was an English poet, writer, and broadcaster.

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John Dixon Hunt

John Dixon Hunt (born 18 January 1936 in Gloucester) is an English landscape historian whose academic career began with teaching English literature.

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John Locke

John Locke (29 August 1632 – 28 October 1704) was an English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the "father of liberalism".

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John P. Macarthur

John Peter Macarthur (b.1958) is an Australian architectural historian, critic and academic, based in Brisbane Australia.

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John Piper (artist)

John Egerton Christmas Piper CH (13 December 1903 – 28 June 1992) was an English painter, printmaker and designer of stained-glass windows and both opera and theatre sets.

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John Ruskin

John Ruskin (8 February 1819 20 January 1900) was an English writer, philosopher, art historian, art critic and polymath of the Victorian era.

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Kyushu

is the third-largest island of Japan's four main islands and the most southerly of the four largest islands (i.e. excluding Okinawa).

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Lake District

The Lake District, also known as the Lakes or Lakeland, is a mountainous region and national park in Cumbria, North West England.

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Landscape painting

Landscape painting, also known as landscape art, is the depiction in painting of natural scenery such as mountains, valleys, rivers, trees, and forests, especially where the main subject is a wide view—with its elements arranged into a coherent composition.

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Modern architecture

Modern architecture, also called modernist architecture, was an architectural movement and style that was prominent in the 20th century, between the earlier Art Deco and later postmodern movements.

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Neo-romanticism

The term neo-romanticism is used to cover a variety of movements in philosophy, literature, music, painting, and architecture, as well as social movements, that exist after and incorporate elements from the era of Romanticism.

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Netherlands

The Netherlands, informally Holland, is a country located in Northwestern Europe with overseas territories in the Caribbean.

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Nicolas Poussin

Nicolas Poussin (June 1594 – 19 November 1665) was a French painter who was a leading painter of the classical French Baroque style, although he spent most of his working life in Rome.

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Nikolaus Pevsner

Sir Nikolaus Bernhard Leon Pevsner (30 January 1902 – 18 August 1983) was a German-British art historian and architectural historian best known for his monumental 46-volume series of county-by-county guides, The Buildings of England (1951–74).

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Oxford English Dictionary

The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is the principal historical dictionary of the English language, published by Oxford University Press (OUP), a University of Oxford publishing house.

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Parc des Buttes Chaumont

The Parc des Buttes Chaumont (English: Park of the Buttes Chaumont) is a public park situated in northeastern Paris, France, in the 19th arrondissement.

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Paul Nash (artist)

Paul Nash (11 May 1889 – 11 July 1946) was a British surrealist painter and war artist, as well as a photographer, writer and designer of applied art.

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Prototype theory

Prototype theory is a theory of categorization in cognitive science, particularly in psychology and cognitive linguistics, in which there is a graded degree of belonging to a conceptual category, and some members are more central than others.

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Rationalism

In philosophy, rationalism is the epistemological view that "regards reason as the chief source and test of knowledge" or "any view appealing to reason as a source of knowledge or justification",Lacey, A.R. (1996), A Dictionary of Philosophy, 1st edition, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1976.

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Rationalism (architecture)

In architecture, Rationalism (razionalismo) is an architectural current which mostly developed from Italy in the 1920s and 1930s.

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Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland, A. D. 1803

Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland, A. D. 1803 (1874) is a travel memoir by Dorothy Wordsworth about a six-week, 663-mile journey through the Scottish Highlands from August–September 1803 with her brother William Wordsworth and mutual friend Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

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Richard Payne Knight

Richard Payne Knight (11 February 1751 – 23 April 1824) of Downton Castle in Herefordshire, and of 5 Soho Square,History of Parliament biography London, England, was a classical scholar, connoisseur, archaeologist and numismatist best known for his theories of picturesque beauty and for his interest in ancient phallic imagery.

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Romanticism

Romanticism (also known as the Romantic movement or Romantic era) was an artistic and intellectual movement that originated in Europe towards the end of the 18th century.

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Sharawadgi

Sharawadgi or sharawaggi is a style of landscape gardening or architecture in which rigid lines and symmetry are avoided to give the scene an organic, naturalistic appearance.

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Sir Uvedale Price, 1st Baronet

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 the 1790s.

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Sir William Temple, 1st Baronet

Sir William Temple, 1st Baronet (25 April 162827 January 1699) was an English diplomat, politician and writer.

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South Yorkshire

South Yorkshire is a ceremonial county in the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England.

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Stowe House

Stowe House is a grade I listed country house in Stowe, Buckinghamshire, England.

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Sublime (philosophy)

In aesthetics, the sublime (from the Latin sublīmis) is the quality of greatness, whether physical, moral, intellectual, metaphysical, aesthetic, spiritual, or artistic. Picturesque and sublime (philosophy) are Themes of the Romantic Movement.

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Surrealism

Surrealism is an art and cultural movement that developed in Europe in the aftermath of World War I in which artists aimed to allow the unconscious mind to express itself, often resulting in the depiction of illogical or dreamlike scenes and ideas.

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The Architectural Review

The Architectural Review is a monthly international architectural magazine.

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Thomas Gray

Thomas Gray (26 December 1716 – 30 July 1771) was an English poet, letter-writer, and classical scholar at Cambridge University, being a fellow first of Peterhouse then of Pembroke College.

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Thomas Johnes

Thomas Johnes FRS (1 September 1748 – 23 April 1816) was a Member of Parliament, landscape architect, farmer, printer, writer and social benefactor.

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Thomas Rowlandson

Thomas Rowlandson (13 July 175721 April 1827) was an English artist and caricaturist of the Georgian Era, noted for his political satire and social observation.

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Tourism

Tourism is travel for pleasure, and the commercial activity of providing and supporting such travel.

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Urban planning

Urban planning, also known as town planning, city planning, regional planning, or rural planning in specific contexts, is a technical and political process that is focused on the development and design of land use and the built environment, including air, water, and the infrastructure passing into and out of urban areas, such as transportation, communications, and distribution networks, and their accessibility.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picturesque

Also known as Pittoresque.

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Picturesque, the Glossary

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See also

1782 introductions

Themes of the Romantic Movement

References