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jan 1, 1882 - William Gilpin published "On Picturesque Beauty"

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- CF: 1782

- tried to give a philosophical perspective on the status of the picturesque
- takes the example of the Palladian (a neoclassically regular and ordered building) - says that to be picturesque requires us to turn it "from a smooth building we must turn it into a rough ruin"

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jan 1, 1882
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~ 143 years ago