Landscape Reading Research
The Queen's Hamlet
Ha-ha (recessed wall)[From the Stowe House]
Parco del Mostri
Roman Forum
Boboli Garden
Jardin du Luxembourg
Tivoli Garden
Bernini's Four Rivers
Jean Dubuffet's Jardin d'Emaille
Stowe Garden
Stourhead Garden
Washington DC parks
William Gilpin (English clergyman, artist and writer) defined the term "Picturesque" in his 1768 study "Essay on Prints". According to Gilpin, picturesque is essentially the combination of beauty and magnitude/imitations of power. A picturesque landscape would also have characteristics of roughness and lacks regular and linear elements while also effectively using other compositional elements like distance, light and shadow, variety and perspective. (example below)
(William Gilpin's View from the Bank of a River)
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