some LANDSCAPES

I have put together a new timeline of landscape and the arts based on entries in this blog.  It covers five hundred people, ranging in ti...

Guo Xi, Early Spring , 1072 In 1072 the Chinese artist Guo Xi completed one of the most celebrated landscape paintings, Early Spring ....

Reading the exiled Ovid's Tristia and Black Sea Letters you keep wanting him to tell his correspondents back in Rome about the landscape...

I have just read All Among the Barley , the third novel by Melissa Harrison, whose writings and nature observations I've been follow...

The other day I pulled out from my library the anthology Poems of Arab Andalusia that City Lights Books published back in 1989.  The transl...

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

Annibale Carracci, The Sacrifice of Isaac , c. 1599-1600 In The Vision of Landscape in Renaissance Italy (1966), A. Richard Turner sin...

Well, here's some interesting news from the British Library : 'With something like a thrill we must record that probably the very ...

  Hsieh T'iao 'Viewing the Three Lakes' I have previously devoted a post to Hsieh Ling-yün ...

Last month, in connection with the Apollo landing anniversary, I mentioned Earth-Moon-Earth (Moonlight Sonata Reflected from the Surface...

Mountain R is a 1996 novel by the French Oulipian writer Jacques Jouet (1947-) about a failed attempt to construct an artificial mountai...

Apollo 11 Mission image - Lunar surface and horizon Source: Internet Archive Tomorrow is the fiftieth anniversary of the moon landin...

Sólheimajökull glacier, Iceland Photographed by me in May 2019 After returning from Iceland recently I was keen to write something ...

Keros and Dhaskalio Source: Wikimedia Commons, Zde I've just been reading an interesting article in the Independent about a ...

Joan Carlile, The Carlile Family with Sir Justinian Isham  in Richmond Park , detail, 1650s Today we made our way through the Pride c...

Grand Canyon (1958) In 1959, the Oscar for Best Short Subject (Live Action) was won by a Walt Disney film, Grand Canyon .  Nearly twen...