Sentimental narratives a child's first steps on a picturesque terrace, a brigand and his pregnant wife kneeling at a roadside cross sometimes make it difficult to appreciate the forthright paint-handling and assured drawing of these studies.
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At the Lincoln Park Zoo, we turned a 19th-century picturesque pond into a real habitat.
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But visit after dark and even adults will be transported to a picturesque wintery scene taken straight from a feel-good movie.
Grab some bottles to go and seek out a picturesque spot to taste them with the Cape Malay favourite, bobotie, a curried mince dish cooked with dried fruits and topped with a savoury egg custard.
The latest landslip occurred on a picturesque but steep stretch of the Cornish coast.
Hopes for a picturesque descent near the Great Pyramids were dashed by high winds.
It is wide, quiet and picturesque, with a turtle centre in the middle protecting precious, endangered Olive Ridley eggs.
Surrounded by 8, 000 acres of land, the Biltmore Estate is a picturesque castle hidden away in the Blue Ridge Mountains.
When Joanne and Frank Branham moved to McCullom Lake in August 1960, they saw a picturesque community with other young families.
About 2, 000 people live in Ghajar, a picturesque hillside village which is partly in Lebanon and party in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.
Perched along the Roaring Fork River, the picturesque city promises a whole lot more of your favourite things than just raindrops on roses.
The first and last scenes of this movie vaguely remind you of an old Claude Lelouch weepie lovers looking wretched in a picturesque fog.
In one week, I will be in picturesque Davos, a ski town nestled in the Swiss Alps, covering the World Economic Forum for Forbes.
We were exhausted by the time we arrived in picturesque Rhinebeck, a town of upscale restaurants, historic wooden buildings and the Franklin D Roosevelt Presidential Library.
Leaning, long-frond palms form a picturesque colonnade down the shoreline.
For red wines only, visit Boxwood Wineries in Middleburg, Virginia, a picturesque property owned by John Kent Cooke, the former owner of the NFL's Washington Redskins.
He recently got in trouble for suggesting in campaign leaflets that he could single-handedly remodel one of Rio's largest shanty towns to resemble a picturesque hillside village in Italy.
They could be staring at Bloomberg screens or reviewing portfolio company spreadsheets on a yacht floating just off a picturesque beach in the Seychelles or at their ski chalet in Corchaval.
By contrast, Passage presented a picturesque and industrious land.
By the scheduled completion date of 2014, the station will have a subterranean bike depot big enough to hold more than 5, 000 bikes, and the surrounding area will be turned into a picturesque, greenery-filled plaza.
While the center of Erfurt is still picturesque and remains a big draw for tourists, some big block buildings on the city's outskirts that used to be residential apartments now sit empty, many of them boarded up.
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Nestled in a picturesque valley near Bologna, the plant is off-limits to all but Ferrari personnel, and to those handpicked, extremely wealthy collectors the legendary carmaker has deemed worthy of owning one of its finely honed machines.
"Prosek is an established brand that has been produced in these areas for more than two thousand years, " Croatian winemaker Andro Tomic said at his Romanesque winery in Jelsa, a picturesque town on the Adriatic island of Hvar.
Start your journey in Suchitoto, a picturesque hill town located just 47km north of capital San Salvador, where cobbled streets zigzag back and forth, dipping down in the direction of majestic Lake Suchitoto, over which the town keeps watch.
Start your stroll at the north bank promenade in Kleinbasel (Lesser Basel), a picturesque residential area thriving with local coffee and art shops tucked in between old brick houses decorated with red and purple pansies and colourful wooden shutters.
The tsunami that wrecked northern Japanese fishing villages and small cities also travelled across the Pacific and hit the Hawaiian islands, causing tens of millions of dollars worth of damage to boats, docks, beach homes and led to the closing of the famous Kona Village Resort, a picturesque minimalist string of high-end bungalows on the Kona coast of the Big Island of Hawaii.
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First came PlumpJack wines, then a store in San Francisco's picturesque Marina neighborhood and subsequently a dozen other properties, including stores, restaurants, a Napa Valley vineyard and winery, and the decade-old PlumpJack Squaw Valley Inn.
As regards new writing about Barcelona I think one of the tendencies is to avoid a kind of picturesque or anthropological view of the city, which is what has happened a little bit in books which have concentrated as Barcelona as a setting.
You'd be hard-pressed to find a more picturesque spot on the planet than Punchbowl National Cemetery.
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