An Essay on the Picturesque, as Compared With the Sublime and the Beautiful; and, on the use of Studying Pictures, for the Purpose of Improving Real Landscape, by Uvedale Price, Esq

by Uvedale Price

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The eighteenth-century fascination with Greek and Roman antiquity followed the systematic excavation of the ruins at Pompeii and Herculaneum in southern Italy; and after 1750 a neoclassical style dominated all artistic fields. The titles here trace developments in mostly English-language works on painting, sculpture, architecture, music, theater, and other disciplines. Instructional works on musical instruments, catalogs of art objects, comic operas, and more are also included.
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British Library

T033397



London : printed for J. Robson, 1794. xv,[1],288p. ; 8°

Genres: Science

306 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1796

About the author

Sir Uvedale Price, 1st Baronet (1747 - 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.

Reviews

[Andragel · Rating 3 out of 5]

I think it started strong on the subject I'm interested in but then got progressively worse. Rather than dwelling in major aesthetic categories, he resorted to settle feuds with other researchers by examining belts and clumps of trees up to their bark. This didn't help - at all.