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Landscape Composition: 2 Beginnings

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Although it was Leon Battista Alberti, in the southern Renaissance, who first developed the subject of composition in […]

September 14, 2021 General, Life, Painting

From world view to panorama: 1 World views

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From an elevated viewpoint, finely detailed, great depth, figures and buildings tiny in the immensity of the view, far distant horizon – it’s a World View.

February 6, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Where? Maps and charts in paintings 1

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From Botticelli’s map of Dante’s ‘Inferno’ to Vermeer’s fine-detailed depictions of decorative wall hangings.

February 22, 2020 General, Life, Painting

When in Rome: 1 Paul Bril and Agostino Tassi

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How northern landscape painting was taken to Italy, and started its long journey to acceptance, and eventually Impressionism.

August 5, 2017 General, Life, Painting

Landscape Visions: 7 maps and inventories

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The earliest landscape paintings – and very many since – have fundamentally been visual records of the world.

August 5, 2015 Painting

Landscape Visions: 4 Breath-taking panoramas

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No matter how old and jaded you get, you can always appreciate the breath-taking view from the top of a hill, as the earth sweeps out in myriad details, as far as the distant horizon.

July 26, 2015 Painting

Landscape Visions: 1 What’s in your landscape?

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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.

July 15, 2015 Painting
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