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...

Reading the exiled Ovid's Tristia and Black Sea Letters you keep wanting him to tell his correspondents back in Rome about the landscape...

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...

The Wallace Collection has several fine pageant shields with dramatic mythological scenes, but this one is unusual: its dark steel sur...

Detail of the south wall, 'Garden Room', Prima Porta Source: Wikimedia Commons In my recent post about Roman landscape painting...