Picturesque
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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 Picture
A view of the Roman Campagna from Tivoli, evening by Claude Lorrain, 1644–1645
The Chancel and Crossing of Tintern Abbey, Looking towards the East Window by J. M. W. Turner, 1794
An Artist Studying from Nature by Claude Lorrain 1639
Villa Doria park in Albano Laziale
Celtic Revival
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The Celtic Revival is a variety of movements and trends in the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries that see a renewed interest in aspects of Celtic culture. Artists and writers drew on the traditions of Gae
Picturesque
…travellers to examine "the face of a country by the rules of picturesque beauty". Picturesque, along with the aesthetic and cultural strands of Gothic and Celticism, was a part of the emerging Romantic sensibility of the 18th century. The term "picturesque" needs to be understood in relationship to two other aesthetic…
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John Duncan Tristan & Isolde
'Bollelin' pewter plate designed by Archibald Knox
Druids Bringing in the Mistletoe (1890) by E. A. Hornel