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Claude Lorrain Landscape with Mythological Figures (mk17) oil painting


Landscape with Mythological Figures (mk17)
Painting ID::  22195 		Artist: Claude Lorrain
Painting: Landscape with Mythological Figures (mk17)
Introduction: c 1650 Chalk drawing and ink wash Kupferstichkabinett,Staatliche Museen,Berlin 27.4 x 40.1 cm
   
   
     

 

 

 
 

 

 

 
Claude Lorrain Embarkation of the Queen of Sheba (mk17 oil painting


Embarkation of the Queen of Sheba (mk17
Painting ID::  22196 		Artist: Claude Lorrain
Painting: Embarkation of the Queen of Sheba (mk17
Introduction: c 1650 Pen drawing and wash,heightened with white.Kupferstichkabinett,Staatliche Museen,Berlin 27.x 42 cm
   
   
     

 

 

 
 

 

 

 
Claude Lorrain Landscape with Sheep (mk17) oil painting


Landscape with Sheep (mk17)
Painting ID::  22197 		Artist: Claude Lorrain
Painting: Landscape with Sheep (mk17)
Introduction: 1648 Brush and pen drawing The Metropolitan Museum of Art,Robert Lehman collection??New York 18.1 x 26.4 cm
   
   
     

 

 

 
 

 

 

 
Claude Lorrain Sermon on the Mount (mk17) oil painting


Sermon on the Mount (mk17)
Painting ID::  22198 		Artist: Claude Lorrain
Painting: Sermon on the Mount (mk17)
Introduction: c 1655 Brush drawing,heightened with white British Museum,London 29.6 x 42.2 cm
   
   
     

 

 

 
 

 

 

 
Claude Lorrain Landscape with Psyche (mk17) oil painting


Landscape with Psyche (mk17)
Painting ID::  22199 		Artist: Claude Lorrain
Painting: Landscape with Psyche (mk17)
Introduction: 1660 Pen drawing and wash.Musee Conde,Chantilly.25.1 x 38.8 cm
   
   
     

 

 

 
 

 

 

 
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     French 1600-1682 Claude Lorrain Galleries In Rome, not until the mid-17th century were landscapes deemed fit for serious painting. Northern Europeans, such as the Germans Elsheimer and Brill, had made such views pre-eminent in some of their paintings (as well as Da Vinci in his private drawings or Baldassarre Peruzzi in his decorative frescoes of vedute); but not until Annibale Carracci and his pupil Domenichino do we see landscape become the focus of a canvas by a major Italian artist. Even with the latter two, as with Lorrain, the stated themes of the paintings were mythic or religious. Landscape as a subject was distinctly unclassical and secular. The former quality was not consonant with Renaissance art, which boasted its rivalry with the work of the ancients. The second quality had less public patronage in Counter-Reformation Rome, which prized subjects worthy of "high painting," typically religious or mythic scenes. Pure landscape, like pure still-life or genre painting, reflected an aesthetic viewpoint regarded as lacking in moral seriousness. Rome, the theological and philosophical center of 17th century Italian art, was not quite ready for such a break with tradition. In this matter of the importance of landscape, Lorrain was prescient. Living in a pre-Romantic era, he did not depict those uninhabited panoramas that were to be esteemed in later centuries, such as with Salvatore Rosa. He painted a pastoral world of fields and valleys not distant from castles and towns. If the ocean horizon is represented, it is from the setting of a busy port. Perhaps to feed the public need for paintings with noble themes, his pictures include demigods, heroes and saints, even though his abundant drawings and sketchbooks prove that he was more interested in scenography. Lorrain was described as kind to his pupils and hard-working; keenly observant, but an unlettered man until his death. The painter Joachim von Sandrart is an authority for Claude's life (Academia Artis Pictoriae, 1683); Baldinucci, who obtained information from some of Claude's immediate survivors, relates various incidents to a different effect (Notizie dei professoni del disegno). John Constable described Claude Lorrain as "the most perfect landscape painter the world ever saw", and declared that in Claude??s landscape "all is lovely ?C all amiable ?C all is amenity and repose; the calm sunshine of the heart" . Related Artists to Claude Lorrain : | Walter Sickert | ralph vaughan willams | Susanne Henry | Willem van Nieulandt | Robert W. Weir |

 

 

 
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