BBC NEWS | UK | Kew to open botanical art gallery – Annotated London’s Kew Gardens is to open the world’s first gallery dedicated to botanical art works – some of which have never been seen by the public. Kew has a vast collection of more than 200,000 art works. Some of the illustrations of [...]

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Ben Willis on the disease threatening Britain’s horse chestnut population | Environment | The Guardian Annotated Britain’s horse chestnuts are being attacked by a virulent disease, and half the population could already be affected Ben Willis

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The Magical Painting of Poussin – The New York Review of Books Annotated Volume 55, Number 6 · April 17, 2008 The Magical Painting of Poussin By Andrew Butterfield Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions An exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, February 12–May 11, 2008. Catalog of the exhibition edited by Pierre [...]

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Pruned: Landscape Hints Annotated Discovered recently are these digitized before-and-after landscape illustrations of Humphry Repton, the prolific and influential English landscape designer of the 18th and 19th centuries, taken from what must be the only complete online facsimile of his important texts. *** *** *** *** *** A quick word about these two images, for [...]

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Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions – Art – Review – New York Times Annotated The wall labels in “Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions” at the Metropolitan Museum, one of the first major Poussin shows since the 1994 Paris Grand Palais survey and the first ever to focus on landscapes, read like mash notes, with paintings [...]

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