Length1h 44m
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Claude Gellée, called Claude Lorrain was neither a great man nor a lofty spirit like Poussin. His genius cannot, however, be denied and he was, like Poussin, a profoundly original inventor within the limitations of a classical ideal. He too spent most of his life in Rome though the art he created was not specifically Italian, but French. For more than two centuries afterwards everyone in France who felt called upon to depict the beauties of nature would think of Lorrain and study his works, whether it be Joseph Vernet in the eighteenth century or Corot in the nineteenth. Outside France it was the same; Lorrain was nowhere more admired than in England. There is an element of mystery in the vocation of this humble and almost illiterate peasant whose knowledge of French and Italian was equally poor, and who used to inscribe on his drawings notes in a strange broken Franco-Italian. This mystery is in some way symbolic of that with which he imbued his pictures, le mystère dans la lumière. This admirable landscapist drew from within himself the greatest number of extraordinary pictures, in which all is beauty, poetry and truth. He sometimes made from nature drawings so beautiful that several have been attributed to Poussin, but in his paintings his imagination dominates, growing in magnitude as he realised his genius. He understood by listening to Poussin and watching him paint that a sort of intellectual background would be an invaluable addition to his own imagination, visions, dreams and reveries.
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Length1 hr 44 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 5, 2022
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
2Herd at a Watering-Place
3BIOGRAPHY
4Palazzo del Quirinale, Rome
5Landscape with Groves and Seated Figure
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6Embarkation of a Queen
7Landscape with an Artist Drawing
8The Siege of La Rochelle by Louis XIII (October 1628)
9Mill on a River
10Morning in Seaport
11Trees and Rocks by a Waterfall
12Rocky Stream with an Artist Seated on the Left
13Landscape with the Rest on the Flight into Egypt
14Tree Study
15The Colosseum
16View of the Campo Vaccino
17Trees and Rocks by a Stream
18Landscape with a Goatherd and Goats
19The Cowherd
20Seaport with the Setting Sun
21The Dance
22Seaport with the Rising Sun
23Oak Tree in the Campagna
24Pastoral Lanscape
25Pastoral Caprice with the Arch of Constantine
26Landscape with Lowland Plain in the Vicinity of Rome
27Stone Pines with Two Figures
28An Artist Studying Nature
29Two Ships in a Storm
30The Draughtsman
31Pastoral Landscape with Lake Albano and Castel Gandolfo
32Moses Saved from the Waters of the Nile
33Landscape
34A Fortress or Monastery near the Porta Pinciana
35The Burial of Saint Seraphia
36Draughtsman in front of the Grotto of Neptune in Tivoli
37Landscape with the Embarkment of Saint Paula Romana in Ostia
38The Archangel Raphael and Tobias
39Coastal Landscape with the Castello Orsini-Odescalchi near Palo
40Landscape with the Port of Santa Marinella
41Goatherd by a Tree
42The Village Fête
43Trees
44Group of Trees on a Riverbank
45Landscape with a Rustic Dance
46View of Tivoli
47Tall Ships Ride at Anchor
48Seaport with the Embarkation of St Ursula
49Sunny Spot at the Edge of a Forest
50Cabins on Lake Nemi
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