![]() Queen Anne was neither an architect, nor a passionate proponent of architecture, but the Queen Anne style revives architectural details reminiscent of the buildings around at her time.īoth Britain and America have Queen Anne revival architecture, and although similar, the Australian variety is quite unique. So why is an architectural style popular in late 19th and early 20th century Australia named after a queen who ruled Great Britain around two hundred years earlier? The roof form is a key feature of these houses. Houses usually have complex roof forms and asymmetrical floor plans. Most of these houses are freestanding and set well back from the street. Pinnacles – high pointed structural themesĭerived from English and American styles that revived elements from the architecture of Queen Anne’s reign (1702-14), these picturesque houses are deliberately complex, creating a kind of vigorous grandeur. The Colonial Gothic design reflects a time reminiscent of folly for wealthy aristocrats who frequently commissioned this style of structure in order to add drama to their estate landscapes. Symmetrical style was replaced by asymmetrical arrangements.Īfter the solidity and predictability of Old Colonial Regency and Old Colonial Grecian architecture, builders and designers became sought inspiration from literature and art which mimicked the romanticism of the Middle Ages.Īll contrived to add a sense of drama, intrigue and testament to victory and honour.Īrchitects took the stark and harsh designs of the Middle Ages and coupled this with a Rococo flair for finer detail, now known as the Old Colonial Gothic Picturesque style of architecture. Poetry, landscape gardening, and architecture came to be affected by landscape painting. In England, the picturesque was defined asĪn aesthetic quality existing between the sublime (i.e., awe-inspiring) and the beautiful (i.e., serene), andĪ quality marked by pleasing variety, irregularity, asymmetry, and interesting textures.įor example, medieval ruins in a natural landscape were thought to be quintessentially picturesque.ĭuring the 18th Century the idea of the picturesque as a kind of beauty gained increasing importance: Having pleasing or interesting qualities (of writing, speech, etc.) strikingly graphic or vivid. Synonyms: attractive, pretty, beautiful, lovely, scenic, charming, quaint, pleasing, ![]() Resembling or suitable for a painting: "a picturesque village". Such as "ruined abbeys and picturesque villages" ![]() Visually attractive, especially in a quaint or charming way. Visually charming or quaint, (of a place or building) ![]()
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