This use of the Picturesque followed the lead of the late-eighteenth century British landscape gardener Humphry Repton, who added formal gardens and terraces around the perimeter of large country houses to moderate the transition from the Neoclassical architecture to the surrounding parkland. As part of the Beaux-Arts era, however, it continued to thrive until the 1940s as the larger landscape setting for many estate-scale Neoclassical dwellings and associated formal garden complexes. (of writing, speech, etc.) strikingly graphic or vivid. having a striking or colourful character, nature, etc 3. In the early nineteenth century, landscape paintings began to be. visually charming or quaint, as if resembling or suitable for a painting: a picturesque village. visually pleasing, esp in being striking or vivid: a picturesque view.
The term landscape was used to refer to a variety of landscapes, and the definition of types of landscape was developed. The Picturesque style remained popular from the 1840s well into the early twentieth century. The picturesque is thought of as halfway between the beautiful and the sublime, with its emphasis on smoothness, regularity, and order, and it must combine. Olmsted, Downing, and Weidenmann all created Picturesque landscapes, including many public parks. While British landscape critics distinguished the “Beautiful” (as seen in the rolling pastoral designs of Lancelot “Capability” Brown) from the wildly dramatic “Picturesque” (replete with ravines, dead trees, and artificial ruins), America combined these alternative approaches to the “natural” landscape aesthetic within the term “The Picturesque.” In fact, both approaches often were used at a single site. The picturesque hotel has been on the cover of numerous travel magazines. On the trip up the mountain, people always stop and take photos of the picturesque scenery. (16) We don't go to Scotland for the weather but when it's like this it is simply the most picturesque place on the planet that I have seen.Evolved predominantly from mid-eighteenth century British landscape design theory, this style sought to evoke “natural” landscape appearance of rougher terrain and dramatic asymmetric composition in contrast to the axial geometry of earlier Renaissance and Baroque landscapes, such as Versailles. The picturesque postcard made me dream I was on the beach. (15) The village, while it makes a nice picturesque background, is not deeply important. (14) It's the pub's picturesque name for a tasting of five obscure or lesser-known wines.
(13) Properties in the village range from picturesque cottages and council houses to large private homes. (12) Volume I is a normal book, describing in picturesque language the history of the cheese made at Tillamook. Resembling or worthy of a picture or painting having the qualities of a picture or painting. (11) One of the additional benefits of rowing is that the action usually takes place at picturesque locations, such as lochs and canals. (10) As we go back in history, language becomes more picturesque. (9) The town has a picturesque harbour where humble and luxurious yachts rub shoulders. (The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) The course of the Rhine below Mainz becomes much more picturesque. (Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen) In your picturesque account of the matter, which I read with great interest some months later, you assert that the wall was sheer. (8) Wiltshire is home to some of the most picturesque towns and villages in the country, often attracting filmmakers to the county. The picturesque would be spoilt by admitting a fourth. (7) The basin at Canal Head should be a wonderful addition to an already picturesque place. (6) It is to the explanation of the historical origins of that picturesque language that this essay addresses itself. (5) Longchamp is a very picturesque place and Paris has that romantic aura about it. (4) Before we left this picturesque place, we took a photo of the kind family we had lodged with. (3) Halifax, surprisingly, had quite an array of picturesque buildings. (2) People like Austrian resorts for their village atmosphere and picturesque settings. (1) Fire crews feared the worst as a blaze gutted two picturesque cottages in a Cotswold village.
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