All Claude Lorrain Oil Paintings

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 View on the Capitoline Hill,Rome (mk17) oil on canvas


View on the Capitoline Hill,Rome (mk17)
View on the Capitoline Hill,Rome (mk17)
Painting ID::  22175
  1635/40 Pen drawing and wash British Museum,London 20.3 x 26.6 cm
  1635/40 Pen drawing and wash British Museum,London 20.3 x 26.6 cm

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Claude Lorrain Christmas Procession at S.Maria Maggiore,Rome (mk17) oil on canvas


Christmas Procession at S.Maria Maggiore,Rome (mk17)
Christmas Procession at S.Maria Maggiore,Rome (mk17)
Painting ID::  22176
  1674 Pen and ink.British Museum ,London
  1674 Pen and ink.British Museum ,London

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Claude Lorrain Landscape with Figures Before (mk17) oil on canvas


Landscape with Figures Before (mk17)
Landscape with Figures Before (mk17)
Painting ID::  22177
  Pen drawing and wash.British Museum,London 14.9 x 20.9 cm
  Pen drawing and wash.British Museum,London 14.9 x 20.9 cm

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Claude Lorrain Civitavecchia (mk17) oil on canvas


Civitavecchia (mk17)
Civitavecchia (mk17)
Painting ID::  22178
  C 1638 Pen drawing and wash Kupferstichkabinett,Staatliche Museen,Berlin
  C 1638 Pen drawing and wash Kupferstichkabinett,Staatliche Museen,Berlin

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Claude Lorrain Two Frigates (mk17) oil on canvas


Two Frigates (mk17)
Two Frigates (mk17)
Painting ID::  22179
  1638/39 Pen drawing and wash.The Art Institute of Chicago
  1638/39 Pen drawing and wash.The Art Institute of Chicago

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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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