some LANDSCAPES

Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, Lake Wolfgang , 1835  Room 1 in the National Gallery currently has a free exhibition of landscape paintings by ...

Years ago I read this attractive Pushkin Press paperback which, unusually for a 19th century novel, comes with no introduction or footnotes....

I recently added a Map of Blog Posts to this site, replacing the earlier ones which were were restricted in what they could show. You can se...

periplum, not as land looks on a map but as sea bord seen by men sailing. Ezra Pound, Canto LIX   We went to see Christopher Nolan's The...

Phoenix rising by the sun in the Aberdeen Bestiary Source: University of Notre Dame It has been intensely hot again this week and I was list...

  In the late 1930s comparisons were often made between new art and ancient landscapes. In  British Art: Ancient Landscapes  Sam Smiles cite...

Utagawa Hiroshige, Musashi Plain, from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji , 1852  I have been reading A Tale Unasked , Penguin's...