The Idea of Villa Castagna
A garden is both a real place, and a cloud of possibilities. What you will find here will be both something real, and something that may or may not become real. For this reason you will find no map: Instead you will meet fragments, part real, part possible.
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Emerging from Darkness: Sophonisba and Masinissa
In the news today is a report that Denzel Washington (the black American actor) is to play Hannibal in a Netflix program. Quite rightly, they are questioning this in Tunisia. Hannibal was a Carthaginian, which means he was descended from … Continue reading →
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The Gardens in Hamilton New Zealand: Part 2. The Picturesque Garden
Part 1: Introduction The Hamilton Gardens garden recognise that there is another garden style beside the Chinese that relies on a linear itinerary, the picturesque landscape garden. At Hamilton this is done in an interestingly and quite original way by … Continue reading →
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The Gardens in Hamilton New Zealand: Part 1. Introduction
Part 2. The Picturesque Garden The Enclosed Gardens in Hamilton, New Zealand, are one of the most exciting creations I have seen in Australia and New Zealand. There seems to be nothing quite like it anywhere else. Unlike the Chaumont … Continue reading →
New Traditional Architecture 2: Right Wing Conspiracies and Leftist Divisiveness
An article in the Art Newspaper by Robert Bevan on 7 January 2022 (‘The ugly pursuit of beauty: how traditional architecture has become a battleground for right-wing politicians’) comes out firing on all barrels against New Traditional Architecture as a … Continue reading →
The New National Gallery of Victoria Contemporary Design and New Traditional Architecture
The design of the new National Gallery of Victoria Contemporary art gallery has just been announced (Fig. 1). The architects are Angelo Candalepas and Associates. The new building is in addition to the building build by Roy Grounds in 1968, … Continue reading →
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On Historical Chinoiserie and the Repertory of Oiserie
The challenge of Oiserie is that there are no rules: it is a field for invention. But its starting point is seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Chinoiserie. Compared to Rococo, there are many more components in Chinoiserie. The Rococo relies on a … Continue reading →
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Fabriques in Paintings 1: Sebastian Vrancx. Part C. The Figures.
This series of posts (A-C) discusses depictions of small buildings that I feel inclined to appropriate to the category of fabriques. Images by the author unless otherwise stated. Sebastian Vrancx’s An Elegant Company Dining Outdoors, c. 1610–1620 in the Museum … Continue reading →
Fabriques in Paintings 1: Sebastian Vrancx. Part B. The Setting and Architecture
This series of posts (A-C) discusses depictions of small buildings that I feel inclined to appropriate to the category of fabriques. They work outwards from the fabrique to the image as a whole, as required. Images by the author unless … Continue reading →
Fabriques in Paintings 1: Sebastian Vrancx. Part A. The Trelliswork Fabrique on the Terrace
This series of posts (A-C) discusses depictions of small buildings that I feel inclined to appropriate to the category of fabriques. They work outwards from the fabrique to the image as a whole, as required. Images by the author unless … Continue reading →
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How a Rainbow Arch Declares the Death of Art History
Recently it was announced that Daylesford would get the Big Rainbow Arch. Hepburn Shire Council opened a survey asking for opinions on options for siting.[1] Several current councillors make a lot of noise about consultation, and on issues like The … Continue reading →