some LANDSCAPES

  There is sweet music in that pine tree's whisper... - Theocritus, Idyll 1 , trans. Anthony Verity Last week I was in Syracuse, the hom...

  Josef Kuwasseg, The Period of the Muschelkalk , c. 1850 Source: The Universalmuseum Joanneum   This remarkable vision of a prehist...

And thou fresh breaking Day, and you, ye Mountains, Why are ye beautiful? I cannot love ye. And thou, the bright eye of the universe, ...

John Martin, The Bard , c1817 As the Tate Britain exhibition John Martin: Apocalypse comes to the end of its run, it would be interest...