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 Crossing the Red Sea (mk17) oil painting


Crossing the Red Sea (mk17)
1655/60 Pen drawing and wash,heightened with white Royal Collections,Windsor Castle.27.4 x 36.7 cm
Painting ID::  22200
Claude Lorrain
Crossing the Red Sea (mk17)
1655/60 Pen drawing and wash,heightened with white Royal Collections,Windsor Castle.27.4 x 36.7 cm
   
   
     

Claude Lorrain Eagles (mk17) oil painting


Eagles (mk17)
1654 Pen and ink.Gabinetto Nazionale delle Stampe,Rome 20.3 x 27.2 cm
Painting ID::  22201
Claude Lorrain
Eagles (mk17)
1654 Pen and ink.Gabinetto Nazionale delle Stampe,Rome 20.3 x 27.2 cm
   
   
     

Claude Lorrain A Tree Trunks (mk17) oil painting


A Tree Trunks (mk17)
1640/60 Chalk drawing and light ink wash.British Museum,London 29.9 x 17.9 cm
Painting ID::  22202
Claude Lorrain
A Tree Trunks (mk17)
1640/60 Chalk drawing and light ink wash.British Museum,London 29.9 x 17.9 cm
   
   
     

Claude Lorrain Figures behind Plants (mk17) oil painting


Figures behind Plants (mk17)
1669 Brush drawing.British Museum,London 18.4 x 23.8 cm
Painting ID::  22203
Claude Lorrain
Figures behind Plants (mk17)
1669 Brush drawing.British Museum,London 18.4 x 23.8 cm
   
   
     

Claude Lorrain Seated Woman and Plants (mk17) oil painting


Seated Woman and Plants (mk17)
1665/70 Pen on chalk underdrawing.Statens Museum for Kunst,Copenhagen 16 x 22.2 cm
Painting ID::  22204
Claude Lorrain
Seated Woman and Plants (mk17)
1665/70 Pen on chalk underdrawing.Statens Museum for Kunst,Copenhagen 16 x 22.2 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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