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Claude Lorrain Port with Villa Medici oil painting


Port with Villa Medici
Painting ID::  2585 		Artist: Claude Lorrain
Painting: Port with Villa Medici
Introduction: 1637 Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence
   
   
     

 

 

 
 

 

 

 
Claude Lorrain The Disembarkation of Cleopatra at Tarsus oil painting


The Disembarkation of Cleopatra at Tarsus
Painting ID::  2586 		Artist: Claude Lorrain
Painting: The Disembarkation of Cleopatra at Tarsus
Introduction: 1642 Musee du Louvre, Paris
   
   
     

 

 

 
 

 

 

 
Claude Lorrain Seaport at Sunset oil painting


Seaport at Sunset
Painting ID::  2587 		Artist: Claude Lorrain
Painting: Seaport at Sunset
Introduction: 1639 Musee du Louvre, Paris
   
   
     

 

 

 
 

 

 

 
Claude Lorrain Landscape with the Finding of Moses oil painting


Landscape with the Finding of Moses
Painting ID::  2588 		Artist: Claude Lorrain
Painting: Landscape with the Finding of Moses
Introduction: 1638 Museo del Prado, Madrid
   
   
     

 

 

 
 

 

 

 
Claude Lorrain Landscape with the Embarkation of Saint Paula Romana at Ostia oil painting


Landscape with the Embarkation of Saint Paula Romana at Ostia
Painting ID::  2589 		Artist: Claude Lorrain
Painting: Landscape with the Embarkation of Saint Paula Romana at Ostia
Introduction: 1639 Museo del Prado, Madrid
   
   
     

 

 

 
 

 

 

 
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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 : | Anthonis Mor | Mandyn, Jan | Jacquemart de Hesdin | Jacob Jordaens | COYPEL, Charles-Antoine |

 

 

 
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