Why are owls associated with wisdom and learning? Do they have more sinister meanings? Was Bosch that keen on owls?
Blake
Long forgotten now, panoramas were hugely popular in the 1800s, and some were strongly narrative.
Two painters whose visions were particularly clearly articulated, and contrasting: Caspar David Friedrich and Samuel Palmer.
I am going to try getting inside the artistic imagination of important landscape painters, and discovering the vision that each had of the landscape. Here are some hors d’oeuvres.
This is a monumental, meticulous, and insightful account of Palmer’s life and work. It merits a wide readership.
The Eclectic Light Company 