some LANDSCAPES

  The view from Holy Island  on the morning of Maundy Thursday Before leaving for our Easter break in Northumberland I had joked abou...

Zhang Fengyi as Cao Cao in John Woo's Red Cliff (2008-9) In a post earlier this month I referred to the musical duel in Red Clif...

" I have given you the trouble of walking to this spot, Captain Waverley, both because I thought the scenery would interest you, and b...

A scholar playing the guqin , Ming Dynasty Reproduced in R. H. van Gulik's The Lore of the Chinese Lute I have written here about...

As this loud brook’s incessant fall In streaming rings restagnates all, Which reach by course the bank, and then Are no more seen,...

Towards the end of his life Henry Wadsworth Longfellow oversaw a 31-volume anthology, arranged geographically, called Poems of Places .  I...

A post shared by Awoiska van der Molen (@awoiska_vdm) on Mar 2, 2017 at 8:16am PST Awoiska van der Molen is one of the contende...

‘Brick-dust in sunlight. That is what I see now in the city, a dry epic flavour, whose air is human breath. A place of walls made straig...

Last night a strong wind rose in the evening.  As it rattled the windows at the top of our house, I was watching an old TV play, Whistle ...

Tabriz artist, Rustam Sleeping While Rakhsh Fights the Lion , c. 1515-22 This painting is the only page that survives from a manuscript...

If you haven't been yet, there are still two days left to make your way through the long David Hockney queues and see Tate Britain's...

If you have access to the BBC iPlayer you can see Andrew Graham-Dixon's latest series, an attempt to tell the story of the Art of Fra...

I once wrote for myself a guide to the trees and plants in Virgil's Eclogues , drawing on the Clarendon Press commentary by Wendell Cla...

Trees and rocks in the 1466 Maeda manuscript of Senzui narabi ni yagyo no zu ( Illustrations for Designing Mountain, Water, and Hillside...

The artwork on the cover of this January 2008 edition of Art in America is by Spencer Finch : Sunlight in an Empty Room (Passing Cloud f...