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Finding Place, Shifting Perception: From Landscape as Image to Landscape as Cosmology

We cannot physically transform the world through landscape design in ten days, but we can change the way we see the world and make place by shifting perception.

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Introduction to the Sublime in Romanticism and Luminism

This post discusses Burke and Kant’s sublime and shows examples of landscape paintings by Northern European Romantics, the Hudson River School and Luminists.

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In Search for Truth: Science, Faith, and the Representation of Nature in Romantic Art

In Romantic landscape paintings we can find evidence of how science, faith, and the representation of nature shape the way we see landscapes and nature today.

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