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Georg Melchior Kraus, Weimar Römisches Haus , 1799 A building in the Park an der Ilm, based on an idea by Goethe Goethe's novel E...

   Paintings in the Goethe House, Frankfurt I was on something of a Goethe pilgrimage last weekend, with five stops, beginning in his c...

I have been reading the Tang Dynasty poet Wei Yingwu (737-92) in Red Pine's award-winning translation, In Such Hard Times (2009).  A...

Coming to the end of the year, I find myself thinking about this blog.  Whilst I still enjoy writing here, I think I will keep posts short a...

A detail from Hanging Gardens of Rock City (1970) by Liliane Lijn In the British Museum at the moment you can see Hanging Gardens of R...

I was at the White Cube on Sunday to see the latest batch of Anselm Kiefer paintings, Superstrings, Runes, The Norns, Gordian Knot .  I...

This cool poster gives a strong impression of 'Troubled Waters', an alternative title for Mauritz Stiller's Johan .  The film...

I am looking forward to reading Experiments on Reality , a new collection of essays by Tim Robinson.  Googling him this weekend and look...

Last month we visited the Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte, just outside Paris.  It was the home of Nicolas Fouquet, Louis XIV's finance ...

Two years ago I wrote here about the plans-reliefs that Andrew Graham-Dixon visited for a TV documentary - he described them as 'a c...

Gerald Bullett (1893-1958) is perhaps not very well known today, but he was a fairly prolific writer and according to Wikipedia (quoting ...

Last week I discussed here the way artists over the centuries have depicted Korea's Diamond Mountains, but these extraordinary peaks ar...

Jeong Seon, General View of Mt. Geumgang , 1734 Source: Wikimedia Commons In these days of mass global travel it feels as if everywhe...

‘The only way one can understand landscape is through time.’ - James Benning This is a still from TEN SKIES (2004) a film by James Be...

I’ve been looking through a library copy of The Art of the Hollywood Backdrop , a huge, glossy and expensive book based on material in th...

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 ....