Episode 65 | Two Meanings – One Beauty

In this podcast episode, Eduardo and Pedro Luis will be discussing the parallels for the two root meanings of the word “picturesque”, those being the French word “pittoresque” which means “like a picture” and the Italian word “pittoresco” which means “like a painter.” We use Nathaniel Parker Willis as a reference to get the meaning of the word “picturesque” from his novel American Scenery: Or Land, Lake, and River Illustrations of Transatlantic Nature. Does beauty truly lie on the eye of the beholder?