some LANDSCAPES

Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, Lake Wolfgang , 1835  Room 1 in the National Gallery currently has a free exhibition of landscape paintings by ...

  In the late 1930s comparisons were often made between new art and ancient landscapes. In  British Art: Ancient Landscapes  Sam Smiles cite...

Hurvin Anderson, Lower Lake , 2005 I've been twice now to the Tate's Hurvin Anderson exhibition - a refreshingly cool, air-condition...

Here are J. M. W. Turner's The Fall of an Avalanche in the Grisons (1810) and an explosive rock fall in  Victor Kossakovsky's new e...

We recently went to the beautiful Van Gogh exhibition at the National Gallery. I thought it very well done and tastefully presented, focusi...

Years ago when I studied art history I was very taken with a particular passage in Heidegger's essay 'The Origin of the Work of Art...

We just got back from Prague, where there is a lot of interesting landscape-related art I could talk about. When I last went there photograp...

Conway Castle - Panoramic View of Conway on the L.& N.W. Railway I've been reading Bryony Dixon's book The Story of Victorian Fi...

Albrecht Dürer, Trintberg - Dosso di Trento , 1495   I recently visited the National Gallery's Dürer’s Journeys: Travels of a Renaissanc...

I recently read Jeremy Noel-Tod's excellent anthology The Penguin Book of Prose Poetry and it prompted me to get down a few books from...

German soldiers in 1944, posing with a picture by Giovanni Paolo Panini taken from Naples Source: Wikimedia Commons We have just retu...

Robert S. Duncanson, Vesuvius and Pompeii, 1870 Source: Wikimedia Commons I now have just over a month left of my project to tweet a ...

Last week the BBC published an interesting article by Paul Cooper on the theme of ruins and Arabic writing.  He notes that the 'motif o...

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

   Charles-Joseph Flipart, Landscape with an architectural view surrounded by trompe-l’oeil elements symbolising the Arts , c. 1779  Im...

Paul Nash, The Wanderer (detail), 1911 Source: British Museum The British Museum currently has an exhibition of British landscape ...