Claude Lorrain

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"


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Claude Lorrain View of Delphi with a Procession (mk17) oil


View of Delphi with a Procession (mk17)
Painting ID::  22230
View of Delphi with a Procession (mk17)
1673 Oil on canvas.The Art Institute of Chicago 101.7 x 127.3 cm
   
   
     

Claude Lorrain Landscape with Ascanius Shooting the Stag (mk17) oil


Landscape with Ascanius Shooting the Stag (mk17)
Painting ID::  22231
Landscape with Ascanius Shooting the Stag (mk17)
1682 Oil on canvas.Ashmolean Museum,Oxford 120 x 150 cm
1682_Oil_on_canvas.Ashmolean_Museum,Oxford_120_x_150_cm
   
   
     

Claude Lorrain Port of Ostia with the Embarkation of St Paula (mk17) oil


Port of Ostia with the Embarkation of St Paula (mk17)
Painting ID::  22232
Port of Ostia with the Embarkation of St Paula (mk17)
1639/40 Oil on canvas Museo del Prado,Madrid 211 x 145 cm
1639/40_Oil_on_canvas_Museo_del_Prado,Madrid_211_x_145_cm
   
   
     

Claude Lorrain Rest on the Flight into Egypt (mk17) oil


Rest on the Flight into Egypt (mk17)
Painting ID::  22233
Rest on the Flight into Egypt (mk17)
1663 Oil on canvas.Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection,Madrid 193 x 147 cm
   
   
     

Claude Lorrain Landscape with Apollo and the Muses (mk17) oil


Landscape with Apollo and the Muses (mk17)
Painting ID::  22234
Landscape with Apollo and the Muses (mk17)
1652 Oil on canvas.National Gallery of Scotland,Edinburgh 186 x 290 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"

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