some LANDSCAPES

Ando Hiroshige,  Maple Leaves and the Tekona Shrine and Bridge at Mama , 1856-9 Ando Hiroshige’s landscape prints often employ tradi...

In contrast to John Rewald, whose search for the sites painted by Cézanne I described in yesterday's post , the young art critic and pai...

John Rewald (1912–1994) was the author of the classic study Cézanne: A Biography (1986), a book that had its origins fifty years earlier in...

J. M. W. Turner, Tintern Abbey , c. 1794 Source: Wikimedia Commons The BBC is showing a three part Peter Ackroyd series on ‘ The Ro...

‘The Nook at Hardt’ is Michael Hamburger’s translation of ‘Der Winkel von Hahrdt’, Friedrich Hölderlin’s short poem of 1803: Der Win...

Photograph reproduced on the wall of the Science Museum, London In paintings like Thermal (1960) Peter Lanyon fused the roles of gli...

Giuseppe Ungaretti’s poem ‘Mattina’ (‘Morning’) may be the shortest great poem of the last century: M’illumino D’immenso As Alis...

For rock albums, iconic images of the band/artist have usually been so important that any landscapes are relegated to something like the ...

How can a contemporary artist paint a landscape without making it ironic? To take just one of artist wrestling with this issue, consider K...

Grieve-Not Lake is the title of an undated handscroll painting by Wu Hong (c1615-after 1683) in the Royal Academy’s Three Emperors exhibiti...

The Japanese architect Sei Takeyama believes that the ability of the Japanese to narrow their focus has led to some of the environmental de...

The Lied and Art Song Texts Page is a fascinating archive of poetry that has been set to music. For example, look up John Clare and you c...

It is interesting to compare the Dartmoor Sounds project with Alice Oswald’s much-praised poem Dart (2002). The poem uses local voices...

Another online soundscape project has tried to capture the sounds of Dartmoor . For example, you can hear the River Dart at Newbridge, jac...

The New York Society for Acoustic Ecology have created an on-line soundmap of the city. The map includes recordings from a range of locat...

Jungles in Paris , the exhibition of Henri Rousseau paintings at Tate Modern prompts several questions about landscape. Myself Portrait-L...

Whilst Samuel Palmer was appending poetic quotations to his rural scenes, J.M.W. Turner was thinking about the relationship between poetry...

Samuel Palmer, Early Morning , 1825 There is still time to see the British Museum ’s Samuel Palmer exhibition before it transfers ...

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...