What is picturesque beauty according to william gilpin

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Assignment:

Read powerpoint on Picturesque Beauty. What is picturesque beauty according to William Gilpin?

What features does a landscape or work or art, or perhaps a garden, have to have to be beautiful on this theory?

Recall that Burke had a very gendered idea of beauty. Smoothness, delicacy, smallness, and other concepts associated with femininity in the late 18th century were central features of beauty for Burke.

What would Gilpin have to say about Burkes view of beauty? Is there a place for roughness in a beautiful composition?

For example, could a hairy, rugged lumberjack chopping wood in a panoramic mountain scene be beautiful for Gilpin? Why or why not?

(You might google and discuss Thomas Cole, The Hunter's Return for a relevant image.)

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