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 Landscape with Dancing Figures (detail) dfg oil painting


Landscape with Dancing Figures (detail) dfg
1648 Oil on canvas Galleria Doria-Pamphili, Rome
Painting ID::  6084
Claude Lorrain
Landscape with Dancing Figures (detail) dfg
1648 Oil on canvas Galleria Doria-Pamphili, Rome
   
   
     

Claude Lorrain Landscape with Rest in Flight to Egypt fg oil painting


Landscape with Rest in Flight to Egypt fg
1647 Oil on canvas, 102 x 134 cm Gemäldegalerie, Dresden
Painting ID::  6085
Claude Lorrain
Landscape with Rest in Flight to Egypt fg
1647 Oil on canvas, 102 x 134 cm Gemäldegalerie, Dresden
   
   
     

Claude Lorrain Seaport with the Embarkation of the Queen of Sheba df oil painting


Seaport with the Embarkation of the Queen of Sheba df
1648 Oil on canvas, 148 x 194 cm National Gallery, London
Painting ID::  6086
Claude Lorrain
Seaport with the Embarkation of the Queen of Sheba df
1648 Oil on canvas, 148 x 194 cm National Gallery, London
   
   
     

Claude Lorrain Landscape with Paris and Oenone fdg oil painting


Landscape with Paris and Oenone fdg
1648 Oil on canvas, 119 x 150 cm Mus??e du Louvre, Paris
Painting ID::  6087
Claude Lorrain
Landscape with Paris and Oenone fdg
1648 Oil on canvas, 119 x 150 cm Mus??e du Louvre, Paris
   
   
     

Claude Lorrain The Rape of Europa sd oil painting


The Rape of Europa sd
1655 Oil on canvas, 100 x 137 cm Pushkin Museum, Moscow
Painting ID::  6088
Claude Lorrain
The Rape of Europa sd
1655 Oil on canvas, 100 x 137 cm Pushkin Museum, Moscow
   
   
     

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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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