some LANDSCAPES

Thursday, June 11, 2026

In the bright sunlight of a paradisal day

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All at once I was standing, almost without being aware of it, on that other earth in the bright sunlight of a paradisal day. I was apparentl...
Monday, June 08, 2026

A yellow roughness in the land

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Round Soria the land is dry and cold. Over the hills, the barren ranges, through green bits of meadow, up the cindery peaks the spring ...
Wednesday, June 03, 2026

Saint Jerome in a Rocky Landscape

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Joachim Patinir's workshop, Saint Jerome in a Rocky Landscape , c. 1515 The National Gallery's early landscape-related art is now in...
Saturday, May 30, 2026

The distant island of Eimeo

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Conrad Martens, HMS Beagle being hailed by native Fuegians, 1832 Following a visit to Charles Darwin's home Down House earlier this year...
Friday, May 29, 2026

A dense forest of pines

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This is 'Barbara Codonia', a depiction of the 'landscape' of northern Germany drawn by Dürer or his school, incorporating th...
Friday, May 22, 2026

The Enchanted Forest

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Marc Chagall, sketch of a curtain for The Firebird Act 1, 'The Enchanted Forest', 1945 We were in Nice last week and visited the Cha...
Sunday, May 03, 2026

Soracte white with deep snow

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Mountains in the Classical Tradition was a research project based at St. Andrews University from 2017 to 2023. It incorporated a blog which...
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This blog explores landscape through the arts: painting, installation, photography, literature, music, film... I've also on occasion covered the creation or alteration of landscapes by architects, artists and garden designers. For the first year I did several short entries each week; since then I have reduced the frequency and some posts are a bit longer. In naming this site 'Some Landscapes' initially I just saw it as a few modest notes and didn't know if I'd keep it up. Of course it will always only cover 'some' landscapes, even though I occasionally like to think of it as an expanding cultural gazetteer. There are some maps and a chronology of posts that I did a while back but the best way of exploring is through the search function, labels or just browsing old posts. I started writing this blog using the name 'Plinius' (a little tribute to the younger and older Plinys) and am now rather attached to it as a 'nom de blog'. Comments are very welcome but are moderated to prevent spam. I used to post landscape stuff on Twitter but now use Bluesky: @andrew-ray.bsky.social.
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