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Claude Lorrain

 

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Claude Lorrain
Claude Gellée or Le Lorrain or Claude

born: Champagne, France; 1600
died: Rome, Papal States [now Italy]; 23 November 1682

Best known for, and master painter of ideal landscapes.

Ideal-landscape painting is an painting that seeks to present a view of nature more beautiful and harmonious than nature itself. The beauty is defined by classical concepts, and the landscape often contains classical ruins and pastoral figures in classical dress.

 

 Lorrain: Trojan Women set fire to the Ships

Trojan Women
set fire to the Ships

Lorrain: Landing of Cleopatra at Tarsus

Landing of
Cleopatra at Tarsus
Louvre, Paris, France

Lorrain: Ulysses Returns Chryseis to Her Father

Ulysses Returns
Chryseis to Her Father
 Louvre, Paris, France

 

Lorrain: View of the Campo Vaccino

View of the
Campo Vaccino
Louvre, Paris, France

Lorrain: Pastoral Gathering

Pastoral Gathering

Lorrain: The Village Fete

The Village Fete
 1639
Louvre, Paris, France

Lorrain: Seaport

Seaport

Lorrain: Seaport at Sunset

Seaport at Sunset
1639
Louvre, Paris, France

Lorrain: View of a Port with Capito

View of a
Port with Capitol
1636?
Louvre, Paris, France

 

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