PAI 002 Paintings Claude Lorrain 1600–1682
Header image:
Landschaft mit Opfer
an Apollo, 1662
Claude Lorrain, French artist best known for, and one of the greatest masters of, ideal landscape painting, an art form that seeks to present a view of nature more beautiful and harmonious than nature itself. The quality of that beauty is governed by Classical concepts, and the landscape often contains Classical ruins and pastoral figures in Classical dress. The source of inspiration is the countryside around Rome — the Roman Campagna — a countryside haunted with remains and associations of antiquity. The practitioners of ideal landscape during the 17th century, the key period of its development, were artists of many nationalities congregated in Rome. Later the form spread to other countries. Claude, whose special contribution was the poetic rendering of light, was particularly influential, not only during his lifetime but, especially in England, from the mid-18th to the mid-19th century.
View of La Crescenza, 1648–50
Landscape with Aeneas at Delos, 1672
A Seaport at Sunrise, 1674
Un artiste étudiant la nature, 1639
Apollo and the Muses
on Mount Helicon, 1680
Perseus and the Origin
of Coral, ca. 1671
The Cowherd, 1636
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PAI 002 Paintings Claude Lorrain 1600–1682
Header image: Landschaft mit Opfer an Apollo, 1662
Text: Michael William Lely Kitson | Britannica
Claude Lorrain, French artist best known for, and one of the greatest masters of, ideal landscape painting, an art form that seeks to present a view of nature more beautiful and harmonious than nature itself. The quality of that beauty is governed by Classical concepts, and the landscape often contains Classical ruins and pastoral figures in Classical dress. The source of inspiration is the countryside around Rome — the Roman Campagna — a countryside haunted with remains and associations of antiquity. The practitioners of ideal landscape during the 17th century, the key period of its development, were artists of many nationalities congregated in Rome. Later the form spread to other countries. Claude, whose special contribution was the poetic rendering of light, was particularly influential, not only during his lifetime but, especially in England, from the mid-18th to the mid-19th century.
View of La Crescenza, 1648–50
Landscape with Aeneas at Delos, 1672
A Seaport at Sunrise, 1674
Un artiste étudiant la nature, 1639
Apollo and the Muses on Mount Helicon, 1680
Perseus and the Origin of Coral, ca. 1671
The Cowherd, 1636
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