Picturesque and Sublime: Impacts of Pausanias in Late-Eighteenth- and Early-Nineteenth-Century Britain

Abstract

The turn of the eighteenth to the nineteenth centuries in England witnessed no less vivid and remarkable a golden age of Pausanian studies than did the turn of the nineteenth to the twentieth or that of the twentieth to the twenty-first centuries. This article explores the place of Pausanias in three key figures: his English translators of 1780 and 1794, Uvedale Price (inventor of the Picturesque in British landscape aesthetics), and Thomas Taylor (the ‘English Pagan’, translator of Plato, Aristotle, and the Neoplatonists), and the artist Joseph Michael Gandy (Perspectivist to Sir John Soane) whose numerous pictorial commentaries on themes inspired by Pausanias adorned the walls of the Royal Academy exhibitions in the first three decades of the nineteenth century.

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