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Claude Lorrain ( French: [klod lɔ.ʁɛ̃]; born Claude Gellée [ʒəle], called le Lorrain in French; traditionally just Claude in English; c. 1600 – 23 November 1682) was a French painter, draughtsman and etcher of the Baroque era. He spent most of his life in Italy, and is one of the earliest important artists, apart from his ...
- Painting
- Baroque
- 21 November or 23 November 1682 (aged 77/78 or 82), Rome, Papal States
Claude Lorrain (born 1600, Chamagne, France—died Nov. 23, 1682, Rome [Italy]) was a 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 ...
Wikipedia article References. Claude Lorrain (French: [klod lɔ.ʁɛ̃]; born Claude Gellée [ʒəle], called le Lorrain in French; traditionally just Claude in English; c. 1600 – 23 November 1682) was a French painter, draughtsman and engraver of the Baroque era. He spent most of his life in Italy, and is one of the earliest important ...
- French
- November 21, 1682
- Chamagne, France
Summary of Claude Lorrain. Claude Lorrain made paintings in which the sun, earth, and water seem to reverberate with emotion. His name is inseparable from seventeenth-century landscape painting, his works characterized by a Baroque classicism which is especially evident in his depiction of antique architecture, and his emphasis on dramatic ...
- November 23, 1682
The painter, draftsman, and printmaker Claude Gellée was born in a village in the Vosges region of northeastern France in the often contested duchy of Lorraine. In Italy, where he spent the greater part of his life, he came to be known as Claude le Lorrain, and for English-language speakers as Claude Lorrain or simply Claude.
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Claude Lorrain. French, 1604/1605 - 1682. Gellée, Claude; le Lorrain, Claude; Gellée, called Claude Lorrain, Claude
In his own lifetime Claude Gellée, known as Claude Lorrain (or more simply as Claude), was recognized as one of the finest masters of landscape painting. His serene, intensely poetic vision of “classical” landscape became a model for his many followers up to and even after the Impressionist era.
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