The Art of Travel

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• There were ox-like landscapes: innocent and 'not at all dangerous', pliable to the human will. Burke had spent his youth in one, at a Quaker boarding school in the village of Ballitore in County Kildare, thirty miles south-west of Dublin, a landscape of farms, orchards, hedges, rivers and gardens. Then there were bull-like landscapes. Burke enumerated their features: vast, empty, often dark and apparently infinite, because of the uniformity and succession of elements. The Sinai was among them. (查看原文)

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• It was for Van Gogh the mark of every great painter to allow us to see certain aspects of the world more clearly. if Velazquez was his guide to grey and the coarse faces of large cooks, then Monet was his guide to sunsets, Rembrandt to morning light and Vermeer to the adolescent girls of Arles ('A perfect Vermeer,' he explained to his brother after spotting one example near the arena). The sky over the Rhone after a heavy rain shower reminded him of Hokusai, the wheat of Millet and the young women in Saintes-Maries de la Mer of Cimabue and Giotto. (查看原文)

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