Picturesque (English spelling)

Japanese: ピクチュアレスク(英語表記)picturesque
Picturesque (English spelling)
An aesthetic concept used mainly in 18th-century England. It is a derivative of the French pittoresque, borrowed from the Italian pittoresco (meaning "pertaining to a painter"). Today, it generally means picturesque or pretty. However, in the second half of the 18th century, there were repeated and complicated debates over the definition of the meaning of this word in relation to garden art, natural scenery, architecture, and landscape painting. First, William Gilpin (1724-1804) made people recognize the picturesque as an aesthetic category through his many books with aquatint illustrations and his practice of traveling in search of "picturesque things," which he called "picturesque tours."

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:
主として18世紀イギリスで用いられた美学上の概念。イタリア語のピットレスコpittoresco(〈画家に関する〉の意)より借用されたフランス語のピットレスクpittoresqueの派生語(英語)で,今日一般的には,絵のように美しい,きれいなという意味である。しかし18世紀後半には,この語が庭園芸術や自然の景観,建築,風景画に関してもつ意味の定義をめぐって,錯綜した論議が繰り返された。まず,ギルピンWilliam Gilpin(1724‐1804)は,彼自身の手になるアクアティント挿絵入りの多くの著作や〈ピクチュアレスク・ツアー〉と呼ばれる〈ピクチュアレスクなるもの〉を求めての旅行の実践によって,ピクチュアレスクを一つの美的範疇として人々に認識させた。

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