picturesque；Ludovico Magno by “Porte Saint-Denis,”

And this caused the people, whose good sense does not perceive so much
refinement in things, and likes to translate _Ludovico Magno_ by “Porte
Saint-Denis,” to give to this dark, gloomy, damp cavity, the name of
“The Rat-Hole.” An explanation less sublime, perhaps, than the other;
but, on the other hand, more picturesque.

雨果這一段，要了解Ludovico Magno by “Porte Saint-Denis,” 的"實物"和picturesque

一般翻譯，當然不知所云：

聖丹尼門（Porte Saint-Denis）是一座法國凱旋門，位於巴黎第十區聖但尼郊區街附近。聖丹尼門原址是查理五世城牆城門之一，它曾是巴黎的防禦工事。
歷史
聖丹尼門是由建築師弗朗索瓦·布隆代爾（François Blondel）設計。路易十四命令雕塑家安圭埃爾兄弟於1674雕出聖丹尼門上的凱旋門雕像，以紀念路易十四在萊茵河及弗朗什-孔泰勝利。
聖丹尼門建於1672年，它取代查理五世在14世紀所建造的城門。
聖丹尼門是布隆代爾最有影響力建築[1]。它在1988年整修。

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porte_Saint-Denis

The main arch is flanked by obelisks applied to the wall face bearing sculptural groups of trophies of arms. Above the main arch, the southern face carries a sculptural group by Michel Anguier of "The Passage of the Rhine" in a sunk panel, while the north face carries allegorical figures of the Rhine and the Netherlands. The entablature bears the gilded bronze inscription LUDOVICO MAGNO, "To Louis the Great". Two smaller pedestrian walkways were built through the obelisk pedestals but they have now been closed.

The original 14th century porte Saint-Denis, drawing by Eugène Viollet-le-Duc.







Porte Saint-Denis, pen and Indian ink. Etching by Gabriel Perelle, 1675. Musée du Louvre, Paris.

South face: passage of the Rhine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porte_Saint-Denis

36 Hours in Orlando, Fla.

By SHAILA DEWAN
Beyond the theme parks, gator farms and citrus groves of Orlando, there are plentiful options that include museums, picturesque lakes, dive bars and gastro-pubs.

Two decades ago, children paddled boats on the lake, families enjoyed picnics, and Mr Hun Sen used to entertain foreign visitors at a modest but picturesque bamboo restaurant. But today, as the bulldozers are poised to raze old Phnom Penh and plug its favourite lake, the urban poor are starting to feel nostalgic for a time when a park really was a park and not a so-called “state-private development zone”.

• John Ruskin identified the "picturesque" as a genuinely modern aesthetic category, in The Seven Lamps of Architecture.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picturesque

picturesque

ADJECTIVE

• 1Visually attractive, especially in a quaint or pretty style.

  ‘the picturesque covered bridges of New England’

  1. 1.1 (of language) unusual and vivid.
     ‘his picturesque speech contrasted with his rough appearance’

Origin

Early 18th century: from French pittoresque, from Italian pittoresco, from pittore ‘painter’ (from Latin pictor). The change from -tt- to -ct- was due to association with picture.

 picturesque

〈場所・風景などが〉絵のように美しい；古びて趣のある


a picturesque old village
絵のような旧村



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