tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19151341.post7660637669997852853..comments2024-03-16T16:12:13.296+00:00Comments on some LANDSCAPES: Jagg'd mountain peaks and skies ice-greenPliniushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06529481330530614513noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19151341.post-69995791018340208062016-01-03T13:23:12.486+00:002016-01-03T13:23:12.486+00:00These pastoral images of working villages may be a...These pastoral images of working villages may be ambivalent. On one hand, the weather is so uncooperative that the watermill seems frozen. And we have hard working hunters fighting the freezing elements and coming home with whatever bits of food they could find. On the other hand people are celebrating the ice with sport, socialising and relaxation.<br /><br />I am managing the History Carnival for January 2016 and need nominations, for your own blog post or someone else’s, by 31/1/2016. The theme I have chosen for this month is History of the Visual, Performing, Musical and Literary Arts. But I want to reiterate that nominations for any good history posts will be welcomed. <br /><br />Examine previous History Carnivals at http://historycarnival.org/index.html<br /><br />The January 2016 nomination form is at http://historycarnival.org/form.html<br /><br />Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19151341.post-58657031978448115592015-12-21T21:17:21.795+00:002015-12-21T21:17:21.795+00:00Thanks Snarlerson - you made similar comments on t...Thanks Snarlerson - you made <a href="http://some-landscapes.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/apocalypse.html" rel="nofollow">similar comments</a> on this poem/painting a few years ago. I would think painting inspired by poetry is a bigger category than poetry inspired by painting. Classical landscape painting (Claude, Poussin etc.) is full, almost by definition, of works inspired by poetry - Virgil, Ovid, Homer...Pliniushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06529481330530614513noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19151341.post-47245275688218881402015-12-21T11:28:26.335+00:002015-12-21T11:28:26.335+00:00What about John Martin's painting of Thomas Gr...What about John Martin's painting of Thomas Gray's ode "The Bard". A great painting although I can not see Mortimer couching his lance.<br /><br />Snarlerson<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com