some LANDSCAPES

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...

In the British Museum's print room you can currently see Raphael to Cozens : Drawings from the Richard Payne Knight bequest. Here are th...

Master of the Darmstadt Passion, Saint Onuphrius , 1460 You could write a whole book about landscapes in depictions of the Desert Fa...

" I have given you the trouble of walking to this spot, Captain Waverley, both because I thought the scenery would interest you, and b...

John Constable,  Landscape with goatherd and goats , 1823 Source for all images: Wikimedia Commons The V&A's Constable: Th...

'The Claude Glass was an optical device which took various forms, of which perhaps Thomas Gray's was the most typical: 'a Plan...

The story of Acis and Galatea is rooted in the landscape of Sicily.  When the sea-nymph sees her lover killed by a great rock, thrown by th...

"In a crowd, he that talks loudest, not he that talks best, is surest of commanding attention; and in an art exhibition, he that does n...

The Ashmolean Museum's exhibition Claude: The Enchanted Landscape , which I looked round yesterday, provides a good opportunity to compa...

Claude Lorrain, Perseus and the Discovery of Coral , c1671 (preparatory drawing for the Holkham Hall painting, Metropolitan Museum of ...

Peter Paul Rubens, Philemon and Baucis , c1630 Source: Wikimedia Commons In 1822 William Hazlitt compared Rubens with Claude: 'I i...