GG Short Talks: The Architectural Picturesque

Dr Rosemary Yallop discusses the 'architectural picturesque', a style which developed in the late eighteenth century as part of the Picturesque movement. Described by the architectural historian David Watkin as 'the major English contribution to European aesthetics', the architectural picturesque saw the shift from rational, measurable, cerebral ideas of beauty in architecture to the primacy of pictorial values; it was the architecture of effect and of theatre.
Rosemary Yallop is an architectural historian and Vice-Chairman of the Georgian Group.
Georgian Group Short Talks are a series of ten- to twenty-minute talks on a variety of subjects relating to the Georgian period. The Georgian Group promotes and protects the architecture and culture of the Georgian period in England and Wales. To support our work, visit www.georgiangroup.org.uk

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How wonderful! Thank you Dr Yallop

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Very interesting and informative, thanks.