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« on: August 29, 2015, 10:08:10 AM »

We find deserts and forests, rivers and lakes, mountains and fens all beautiful despite the fact they have nothing in common.

And notions of beauty have not stayed constant. Until Romanticism happened and made everyone see sense, a beautiful landscape (at least to a member of the educated classes) was a prosperous agricultural one of the sort turned into weird sub-Classical fetish by Claude Lorrain: most of the landscapes that we particularly value today were routinely dismissed as 'waste'.
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