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Uvedale Price (1747-1829): Decoding the Picturesque (Garden and Landscape History)
Uvedale Price Decoding the Picturesque - 1747-1829 - Garden and Landscape History
Author: Charles Watkins, Ben Cowell
Uvedale Price achieved most fame as the author of the influential Essay on the Picturesque of 1794 in which he argued that the work of the greatest landscape artists, such as Salvator Rosa, Rubens and Claude, should be used as models for the "improvement of real landscape". His attack on the smooth certainties of Capability Brown sparked off a p...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781783270231
ISBN-10: 1783270233
Publication Date: 6/18/2015
Pages: 276
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Publisher: Boydell Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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