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Showing posts with label Pieter Bruegel. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Pieter Bruegel. Show all posts

Sunday, February 04, 2018

Mundus Subterraneus

I have been immersed in Athanasius Kircher's Theatre of the World , a (literally) wonderful and wittily-written book about the great ...

Saturday, December 19, 2015

Jagg'd mountain peaks and skies ice-green

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Hunters in the Snow (Winter) , 1565 According to Robert D. Denham's, Poets on Paintings: A Bibliography (...

Friday, December 26, 2014

Various sorts of landscapes with fine histories composed therein

Joannes and Lucas van Doetecum after Pieter Bruegel the Elder , Magdalena Poenitens (Penitent Magdalene) , ca. 1555–56 Engraving in th...

Sunday, November 24, 2013

Landscape with the Rape of Europa

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

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Plinius: 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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