Some Landscapes, Plinius' Blog Index

A valuable resource for those interested in landscape.

To quote from Plinius, or Andrew Ray, the author of the blog Some Landscapes:

"This selective index for Some Landscapes mainly covers the creators of landscapes in art, literature, music etc., rather than all the critics, commentators and historians that I've quoted.

I've written this as a huge list on one page so that you can search it using Ctrl F. In addition to searching for individuals

You can look for nationalities: 'Argentinian', 'Belgian', 'Chinese' etc. Of course it is impossible to be totally accurate in this: some of these people didn't really have nationalities as such, some were residents of specific cities rather than what we'd now consider countries, many have simply moved around a lot. Rather than use 'British' I've tried to refer to the specific country, although in some cases this doesn't really work - Eileen Agar for example was born in Argentina and lived mainly in Paris. Sometimes nationality is disputed so I'm happy to be corrected (Seamus Heaney is down as Irish but I may have got it wrong in other cases...)

You can also do a search for 'poet', 'painter', 'photographer', 'composer' and so on. I also use the more generic 'writer' and 'artist'.

And you can look for dates. I've colour-coded the entries so that it is easy to see at a glance approximately when each person was active. The youngest are in light green (those born since 1950), then there's mid green for those born between 1850 and 1949, a brown for those born between 1650 and 1849, a light brown for those born between 1350 and 1649, a salmon pink for those born between 500 and 1349 and a red for those born before 500".

More information from Plinius, about his blog, Some Landscapes:

"This site is about landscapes and the arts. It highlights ways in which landscape has been evoked, depicted or transformed in painting, photography, literature, music and film. I've also sometimes discussed the creation or alteration of landscapes by architects, artists and garden designers. There is an index above listing the artists of all kinds that have been mentioned here. In naming this site 'Some Landscapes' I had it in mind that eventually the list of entries would amount to a kind of cultural gazetteer. For the first year I did several short entries each week; since then I have reduced the frequency but am still recording thoughts and observations when they occur to me. I started writing it using the name 'Plinius' (a little tribute to the younger and older Plinys) and am now rather attached to this as a nom de blog"... Andrew Ray.