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Look up: picturesque


  1. picturesque
    [adj] - strikingly expressive 2. [adj] - suggesting or suitable for a picture
    Found op http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definition.php?query=picturesque

  2. picturesque
    In art, having those qualities that characterize a good picture, natural or artificial. In particular it refers to something pretty or attractive, especially in a quaint or charming way. ...
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20688

  3. Picturesque
    Interest in landscape painting and in looking at the landscape itself grew rapidly through the second half of the eighteenth century. Definitions of types of landscape or view, seen from an aesthetic or artistic point of view, followed. At one extreme was the Sublime (awesome sights such as great mo...
    Found op http://www.tate.org.uk/collections/glossary/definition.jsp?entryId=223

  4. 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, particularly in the castellated, Italianate and cottage styles. ...
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20935

  5. Picturesque
    Pic`tur·esque' adjective [ Italian pittoresco : confer French pittoresque . See Pictorial .] Forming, or fitted to form, a good or pleasing picture; representing with the clearness or ideal beauty appropriate to a picture; expressing...
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/P/85

  6. picturesque
    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....
    Found op http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictionary?picturesque

  7. picturesque
    adjective suggesting or suitable for a picture; pretty as a picture; `a picturesque village`
    Found op http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=picturesque

  8. picturesque
    adjective strikingly expressive; `a picturesque description of the rainforest`
    Found op http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=picturesque



  1. Picturesque
    • (a.) 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; picturesq...
    Found op http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning/picturesque/

  2. picturesque
    artistic concept and style of the late 18th and early 19th centuries characterized by a preoccupation with the pictorial values of architecture and ... [3 related articles]
    Found op http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/p/65

  3. picturesque
    picturesque, picturesqueness 1. Of, suggesting, or suitable for a picture: 'We saw the picturesque rocky shores.' 2. Striking or interesting in an unusual way; irregularly or quaintly attractive; as a picturesque sea shore. 3. Strikingly graphic, vivid, expressive; creating detailed mental images;...
    Found op http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/info/view_unit/3337/

  4. Picturesque
    Picturesque is an aesthetic ideal introduced into English cultural debate in 1782 by William Gilpin in Observations on the River Wye, and Several Parts of South Wales, etc. Relative Chiefly to Picturesque Beauty; made in the Summer of the Year 1770, a practical book which instructed England`s leisu...
    Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picturesque

  5. picturesque
    picturesque, term used in 18th-century England to refer to a landscape that looked as if it had come out of an academic painting. Used as derogatory criticism of such painting, the picturesque was considered pretty rather than beautiful.
    Found op http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/ent/A0838970.html

  6. Picturesque
    A modification of the beautiful in English aesthetics, 18th century. -- L.V.
    Found op http://www.ditext.com/runes/p.html

  7. picturesque
    In art, having those qualities that characterize a good picture, natural or artificial. In particular it refers to something pretty or attractive, especially in a quaint or charming way
    Found op http://www.talktalk.co.uk/reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0097230.html

  8. picturesque
    1) Attractive 2) Beautiful 3) Charming 4) Lovely 5) Pretty
    Found op http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/EN/crossword-dictionary/picturesque/1

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