Picturesque Castles Around the World
Nearly every country in the world has a picturesque castle or grand fortress. The castles listed here are among the world's most interesting.
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Picturesque
- term defined in the later 18th century as an aesthetic quality in architecture and landscape garden design: in architecture is normally applied to asymmetrically composed buildings of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, ...
The picturesque and pointed forms of the Gothic Revival style were derived from medieval Gothic architecture. This style was first used in Vermont in the mid 1820s for churches.
These picturesque country cottages are distinguished by pointed arched windows which are combined with towers, steep gable roofs, lacy bargeboard, verandas, and bay and oriel windows.
Arcadia a picturesque plateau region in Greece, reputed to be the home of pastoral poetry and commemorated by pastoral poets as an ideal landscape of peace and contentment, peopled by philosopher-shepherds.
Example 1: Augustus Caesars gardens picturesqueIn general use, the word Picturesque means 'suitable for making into a picture'. In the eighteenth century the term was given a specific use as an intermediate quality between Beautiful and Sublime.
A few Britons, and soon some Germans, began to appreciate the picturesque character of ruins - "picturesque" becoming a new aesthetic quality - and those mellowing effects of time that the Japanese call wabi-sabi and which Horace Walpole ...
Represented culmination of picturesque, romantic styles of 19th century. Anything goes: style itself is based on "decorative excess" and variety. No focus on specific historical detailing; rather, a combination of various forms/styles.
The Cottage home is typically a smaller design with picturesque details and informal but romantic styling. Consider images of a cozy and inviting storybook home.
It is a reflection of the Picturesque movement (an aesthetic point of view celebrating the variety, texture, and irregularity inherent in nature) that began in Europe.
Picturesque - Such as would make a striking picture, implying some beauty.
Pier - The mass of stone work between the openings in the wall of a building, the support of an arch, bridge, gate pillar.
Picturesque facades
Tudor or flattened pointed arches in door and door surrounds
Prominently crossed gables
Oriel windows -- along with tall, narrow windows -- often with small window panes ...
The Italianate style, along with the Gothic Revival, began in England as part of the Picturesque movement, a reaction to the formal classical ideals in art and architecture that had been fashionable for about two hundred years.
Set in a clearing in the woods just outside the picturesque town of Creemore, Claverleigh is one of the very few Gothic Revival villas in Ontario. It is situated on a large country estate overlooking the Mad River.
Although a taste for such buildings formed a part of the Picturesque from the late 18th century (e.g. the Cottage Ornč), they were generally scorned until the mid to late 19th century, ...
(fig) (= cranny, place) a picturesque corner of Soria → un rincón pintoresco de Soria
in every corner → por todos los rincones
every corner of Europe → todos los rincones de Europa ...
Brutalism - A short-lived architectural movement of the 1960s that set itself in opposition to the picturesque Scandinavian-influenced mainstream of the period, and instead advocated the brutally frank expression of the nature of modern materials, ...
These picturesque structures are marked by "Gothic" windows with distinctive pointed arches; exposed framing timbers; and steep, vaulted roofs with cross-gables. Extravagant features may include towers and verandas.
(French): An artfully rustic small house associated with the Picturesque movement.CounterchangingOf joists on a ceiling divided by beams into compartments, when placed in opposite directions in alternate squares.
cottage orné: a rustic cottage, often thatched, originating in the Picturesque movement of the 18th century.
cruciform: cross-shaped in plan.
Inspired from the guide books of Andrew Jackson Downing, Colvent Vaux, and William H. Ronlette from the Italian villas. It all began as a picturesque movement, ...
Italianate - An architectural style derived from the Italian villa architecture that became common in England in the Nineteenth Century and subsequently in Australia in the 1870s and 1880s. Commonly uses picturesque forms, ...
Dormer windows are found extensively in medieval and Tudor architecture. In Georgian architecture they are often hidden behind a parapet. However, they became a much used feature in Picturesque and Victorian architecture.
 See also: Architecture, House, Gable, Classical, Tower
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