some LANDSCAPES

 Landscape in the film A Few Days from the Life of I. I. Oblomov (1980) Can there be such a thing as an indolent landscape? Ivan Goncharov...

I once wrote for myself a guide to the trees and plants in Virgil's Eclogues , drawing on the Clarendon Press commentary by Wendell Cla...

  Adriaen van de Velde, Arcadian Landscape with Resting Shepherds and Animals , 1664 Source: Wikimedia Commons I feel in need of a l...

Writing in The Sunday Telegraph last month, Andrew Graham-Dixon gave a four star review to the British Museum's Landscape, heroes and f...

Having described the poetry of Hsieh Ling-yün last time, I now feel the need to refer to his contemporary T'ao Yüan-ming (also known as ...

"The time will come when New York will be built up," Frederick Law Olmsted wrote in his design proposal for Central Park. "Th...

The catalogue to the current Adam Elsheimer exhibition is published by Paul Holberton . Holberton himself knows a lot about early landscape...

Virgil’s first Eclogue opens with the farmer Meiliboeus addressing Tityrus, who is reclining under a sheltering beech tree, playing his ree...

Nobody has proved any direct link between Giorgione’s mysterious Tempesta and the pastoral poems of his contemporaries. The art historian...