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Special Collections Sunday : Picturesque Bristol
Heritage Open Day: A display of books from Bristol Libraries Special Collections depicting Bristol and its surroundings from years gone by. Visit us in our historic Bristol Room for a chance to look through some lovely old and rare books from the collections. Derived from the Italian ‘pittoresco’, “from a picture,†the term picturesque defines an object or view worthy of being included in a picture. The picturesque was formulated into an aesthetic category in late eighteenth-century Britain, where it was primarily applied to the practices of landscape painting and garden and park design.
In the mid-eighteenth century, tourists who followed the cult of the picturesque travelled to untamed areas of the British Isles in pursuit of this visual ideal.
Sun 15 Sep:1400-1600; Free Entry.
Bristol Central Library, College Green, Bristol, Gloucestershire BS1 5TL
Sun 15 September
Website:
www.heritageopendays.org.uk/submission-event//special-collections-sunday-picturesque-bristol.html