Montaigne’s teachings on landscape look to the future and beyond, to the distant realm of death. For Van Gogh, sincerity is the only mode for relating to landscape, the closeness of which makes it possible to think about “beyond the grave” and find relief for one’s suffering. For Nietzsche, landscape is the good news of a truly peaceful, eternal beyond, the moment of blissful abandon by a self-sufficient nature, in which thinking reaches its eternal pause. This article explores the transference that these philosopher-artists make between their early experience of space and the landscape they imagine as the scene for their own death.