Course Description
Course Name
Georgian Landscapes (Junior Honours History Of Art)
Session: VGSS3122
Hours & Credits
20 SCQF Credits
Prerequisites & Language Level
Taught In English
- There is no language prerequisite for courses at this language level.
Overview
This course examines developments in the landscape arts of the Georgian period, exploring the use and representation of a range of diverse rural and urban landscapes across Hanoverian Britain and including the work of leading landscape architects like William Kent, Capability Brown and Humphrey Repton, influential theorists like William Gilpin, Richard Payne Knight and Uvedale Price, as well as the painters Paul and Thomas Sandby, Thomas Gainsborough, Richard Wilson, and Joseph Wright of Derby.
*Course content subject to change