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What (who) is picturesque$60788$ - definition
EAST ASIAN GARDEN DESIGN
Shakkei and the picturesque; Shakkei; Borrowing of scenery ("shakkei")
![''Shakkei'' example of [[Hikone Castle]] in the background of Genkyū Garden (玄宮園)](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Genkyuen03s3000.jpg?width=200 "''Shakkei'' example of [[Hikone Castle]] in the background of Genkyū Garden (玄宮園)")
picturesque
![''A view of the Roman Campagna from Tivoli, evening'' by [[Claude Lorrain]], 1644–5](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/A view of the Roman Campagna from Tivoli, evening (1644-5); Claude Gellée, called Le Lorrain.jpg?width=200 "''A view of the Roman Campagna from Tivoli, evening'' by [[Claude Lorrain]], 1644–5")
AESTHETIC IDEAL INTRODUCED INTO ENGLISH CULTURAL DEBATE IN 1782 BY WILLIAM GILPIN; ALONG WITH THE AESTHETIC AND CULTURAL STRANDS OF GOTHIC AND CELTICISM, WAS A PART OF THE EMERGING ROMANTIC SENSIBILITY OF THE 18TH CENTURY
Pittoresque
¦ adjective visually attractive in a quaint or charming manner.
?(of language) unusual and vivid.
Derivatives
picturesquely adverb
picturesqueness noun
Origin
C18: from Fr. pittoresque, from Ital. pittoresco, from pittore 'painter' (from L. pictor).
Picturesque
AESTHETIC IDEAL INTRODUCED INTO ENGLISH CULTURAL DEBATE IN 1782 BY WILLIAM GILPIN; ALONG WITH THE AESTHETIC AND CULTURAL STRANDS OF GOTHIC AND CELTICISM, WAS A PART OF THE EMERGING ROMANTIC SENSIBILITY OF THE 18TH CENTURY
Pittoresque
·adj Forming, or fitted to form, a good or pleasing picture; representing with the clearness or ideal beauty appropriate to a picture; expressing that peculiar kind of beauty which is agreeable in a picture, natural or artificial; graphic; vivid; as, a picturesque scene or attitude; picturesque language.
picturesque
AESTHETIC IDEAL INTRODUCED INTO ENGLISH CULTURAL DEBATE IN 1782 BY WILLIAM GILPIN; ALONG WITH THE AESTHETIC AND CULTURAL STRANDS OF GOTHIC AND CELTICISM, WAS A PART OF THE EMERGING ROMANTIC SENSIBILITY OF THE 18TH CENTURY
Pittoresque
a.
1.
Beautiful, picture-like, scenic.
2.
Beautiful, graphic.
Wikipedia
Borrowed scenery
Borrowed scenery (借景; Japanese: shakkei; Chinese: jièjǐng) is the principle of "incorporating background landscape into the composition of a garden" found in traditional East Asian garden design. The term borrowing of scenery ("shakkei") is Chinese in origin, and appears in the 17th century garden treatise Yuanye.
