What is the meaning of the art term Picturesque?

It is a style of landscape painting that flourished in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

Picturesque landscapes were somewhere between the beautiful and the sublime, not serene, not awe-inspiring, but irregular, pleasing to the eye, and full of interesting detail.

Picturesque painters included the Englishman Thomas Girtin and the Frenchman Gaspard Dughet.

The movement represents a stage between neoclassical regularity and Romantic passion.

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