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 cattle farmer and the landscape oil painting


cattle farmer and the landscape
mk250 Year in 1629. Oil painting on cloth. About 107 x 147 cm. Philadelphia Museum of Art
Painting ID::  56887 		Claude Lorrain
cattle farmer and the landscape
mk250 Year in 1629. Oil painting on cloth. About 107 x 147 cm. Philadelphia Museum of Art
   
   
     
Claude Lorrain Ulysses Kerry race will be the return of her father Dubois oil painting


Ulysses Kerry race will be the return of her father Dubois
mk255 for in 1644. 1.19 x 1.50 meters canvas. Paris, the Louvre
Painting ID::  57264 		Claude Lorrain
Ulysses Kerry race will be the return of her father Dubois
mk255 for in 1644. 1.19 x 1.50 meters canvas. Paris, the Louvre
   
   
     
Claude Lorrain Landscape with the Rest on the Flight into Egypt oil painting


Landscape with the Rest on the Flight into Egypt
1666 Oil on canvas The Hermitage, St. PetersburgArtist:CLAUDE LORRAIN Title: Landscape with the Rest on the Flight into Egypt (detail) Painted in 1651-1700 , French - - painting : religious
Painting ID::  63833 		Claude Lorrain
Landscape with the Rest on the Flight into Egypt
1666 Oil on canvas The Hermitage, St. PetersburgArtist:CLAUDE LORRAIN Title: Landscape with the Rest on the Flight into Egypt (detail) Painted in 1651-1700 , French - - painting : religious
   
   
     
Claude Lorrain women in a garden oil painting


women in a garden
1866 paris, muse'e du jeu de paume
Painting ID::  64365 		Claude Lorrain
women in a garden
1866 paris, muse'e du jeu de paume
   
   
     
Claude Lorrain Egeria beweint Numa oil painting


Egeria beweint Numa
Oil on canvas 155 x 200 cm 1669
Painting ID::  66227 		Claude Lorrain
Egeria beweint Numa
Oil on canvas 155 x 200 cm 1669
   
   
     
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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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