This lecture was on the "picturesque" and showed slides of landscapes which were drawn and painted by the ''Grand Tourists", upper class English people who travelled continental Europe between 17th and 19th century. One image which struck me was that of a painting of the Colosseum in Rome from an aerial perspective, which was the result of an imaginative visualisation, as there was no other means of gaining such a perspective at the time.
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