Claude Lorrain
He was born in 1600 in Chamagne France and died in 1682 Rome, Italy. He was a French painter, printmaker and art theorist that was best known for his great masters landscape paintings. All his paintings depicted landscape scenery to be more beautiful and harmonious than actual nature itself.
He drew inspiration from the countryside around Rome. Claude’s special contribution to the landscape paintings was the poetic rendering of light. This Contribution was very influential not only during his lifetime but all throughout England, from the mid-18th to the mid-19th century. Claude’s first dated work Landscape with Cattle and Peasants and he painted it in 1629. It hangs in the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Claude was trained by Agostino Tassi, a landscapist and the leading Italian painter of architectural frescos. While he was apprenticing for Tassi he spent two years in Naples with Goffredo Wals. Tassi taught Claude his basics of landscape art and how to accurately portray them. He taught him how to render coast scenes with buildings, little figures, and display a range of light.
I believe Claude was an influential artist during the Baroque era. His paintings were beautiful and tasteful. All the landscapes he painted had a great sense of balance and displayed a harmonious use of light and shadows.
Bibliography
https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/clau/hd_clau.htm
Jeff Burgess
Nuha,
Pretty good work on Lorrain here! I wonder if you could see a connection to the early work of JMW Turner in Lorrain? What I like about this is you’ve made a connection to the painter’s work and that is reflected in your writing. Good research and personal feelings which is what I’m looking for here.
Jeff