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Showing posts with label Johannes Vermeer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Johannes Vermeer. Show all posts
Friday, December 05, 2014

Wall of Treasures

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Frans Francken II, Preziosenwand ( Wall of Treasures ), 1636 Detail A whole book could be devoted to the history of landscape pai...
Thursday, December 03, 2009

The Liverpool Cityscape

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I've been in Liverpool this week and managed to squeeze in a trip to the Walker Art Gallery.  I think my favourite painting in their col...
Friday, February 27, 2009

View of Delft

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Johannes Vermeer, View of Delft , 1660-61 Last week I saw the most beautiful painting in the world, according to Proust. Vermeer's V...
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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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