Showing posts with label windmills. Show all posts
Showing posts with label windmills. Show all posts
Saturday, March 23, 2024

Mirror of Holland

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This morning I walked along our local canal, with bright sunny weather creating reflections of the barges and bridges, the buildings of Hoxt...
Saturday, April 21, 2018

Picturing Paradise

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Li Cheng, A Solitary Temple Among Clearing Peaks , Song Dynasty We have got rather behind in watching Civilisations on the iPlayer,...
Friday, May 22, 2015

The sound of water escaping from Mill dams

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John Constable, Stratford Mill, c. 1820 Source: Wikimedia Commons (National Gallery) Anglers often appear in the paintings of John Co...
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Sunday, November 23, 2014

Watermeadows at Salisbury

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John Constable,  Landscape with goatherd and goats , 1823 Source for all images: Wikimedia Commons The V&A's Constable: Th...
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Friday, December 23, 2011

Landscape in the Trésor des Histoires

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Landscape in the Trésor des Histoires , Bruges, c. 1475-80 Image from the British Library's Facebook Pages The British Library...
Saturday, March 24, 2007

Saint Anthony in a landscape

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Hieronymous Bosch, The Temptation of Saint Anthony, c1500. Source: Wikimedia Commons I remember once visiting the Musées royaux de...
Saturday, December 31, 2005

Water and windmills

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Richard Holmes’ anthology of Samuel Taylor Coleridge poems is notable for its inspired thematic arrangement and the inclusion of some of Col...