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Articles found in Style Tag: Picturesque

Periods / Styles

Rooted in Enlightenment thinking and the rise of the picturesque, Georgian gardens became spaces where nature was artfully framed rather than tamed.

Styles / Topics

Exploring how Jane Austen presents, and subtly comments on, the Picturesque in Sense and Sensibility, through the creation of both character and dialogue.

People

The Picturesque was a very popular idea in the mid to late eighteenth century, initially focussing on viewing the natural landscape as if it were a picture in a frame, although it later evolved into a more complex set of aesthetic ideals and influenced fashions in English landscape garden design.

Places

A walk round this exceptional English landscape garden made by Henry Hoare in the mid-18th century demonstrating many of the design principles that distinguished this type of garden from the very formal gardens of the 17th century.

People

Known for his visionary “Red Books” that combined art, narrative and design, Repton’s work bridged the grandeur of Capability Brown with a more intimate, picturesque style that endures in the English landscape today.