Landscape Then and Now

DOI The aesthetics of landscape have always been finely calibrated in response to prevailing ideological concerns of the day. When eighteenth-century grand tourists embraced the Claudean picturesque—by purchasing old master paintings in Italy, commissioning estate views from Richard Wilson, or sweep...

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Main Author: Tim Barringer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Yale University 2018-12-01
Series:British Art Studies
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Online Access:https://www.britishartstudies.ac.uk/issues/issue-index/issue-10/landscape-national-contexts