some LANDSCAPES

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

Here is one of Gerhard Richter’s ‘romantic’ landscape paintings, Meadowland (1985). Source: Mark Harden Do such images offer the viewer a...

Source: Wikimedia Commons One of the simplest manifestations of landscape and power is the description of a landscape as property. A...

O. H. Creighton's Castles and Landscapes notes that the study of medieval ornamental landscapes is "still in its infancy", w...

One of the landscape features discussed in Oliver Rackham's book A History of the Countryside is the holloway. Holloways are sunken sh...

Source: Wikimedia Commons Walter Benjamin writes of Heidelberg Castle in One Way Street : “Ruins jutting into the sky can appear dou...

The Latin poet Tiberianus, who flourished about 335, composed a nature poem, ‘Amnis ibat inter arua ualle fusus frigida…” Called in Englis...

The landscapes of the enigmatic Portuguese poet Alberto Caeiro (1889-1915) are non-specific. He talks of the sun, wind and rain, of flower...

Christopher Wood’s book In Ruins elegantly describes the various ways in which ruins have been appreciated. What could have been a rather ...

Albrecht Dürer, House by a Pond ,  c.1496 In about 1496 Albrecht Dürer painted a House by a Pond on the outskirts of Nuremburg, aft...

The Qianlong Emperor, Panshan , 1745   In the Royal Academy ’s Three Emperors Exhibition (discussed last month ) there is another ins...

'Inscription for a Fountain on a Heath', the Coleridge poem I mentioned here in my last post , echoes the practice in China of carvi...

In September 1801 Samuel Taylor Coleridge noted in his journal “The spring with the little tiny cone of loose sand ever rising and sinkin...

Roni Horn, Still Water (The River Thames for Example) , 1999 low-resolution photograph taken at MOMA, New York There is a brief clip o...

John Ruskin, Matterhorn , 1849 The cleansing power of mountains was described in an inspiring purple passage by John Ruskin: M...

To what extent are cityscapes defined by their trees? Seville has its orange trees, Berlin its linden trees, London its plane trees… In...

Artists and writers are starting to respond to the challenge of climate change. For example, Rachel Whiteread, Antony Gormley, Ian McEw...

There is a lot to say about the history of landscape in theatrical scenery, especially the way it has influenced painting. Examples would i...

 Roger Fenton, Wharfe and Pool, Below the Strid , 1854 An excellent exhibition of photographs by Roger Fenton (1819-69) is currently ...

The National Poetry Archive was launched today. It includes clips of poets reading their own work, although only a minority are available ...