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On the base of the spoon we can see one of the Lake Pavilions at Stowe. Vanburgh's creation is again placed in an invented landscape setting that met the period's conception of the "picturesque". Interestingly the desire to give reality to the idea of a "picturesque landscape" (which manifested itself both in actual gardening practice and in the figurative arts) not only did not exclude, but even presupposed the development and use of "visual cliches", Such visual "formulas" include, fro example, the depiction of trees with effectively twisted trunks attractively framing the Lake Pavilions. The trees appear now to the right, now to the left of the buildings, now close up, now further off (we have only to compare the composition on the lid of the vessel with that on the spoon), depending on the compositional effect the artist was pursuing in a particular case. |
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