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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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Table of contents
1Claude Lorrain Claude Lorrain
2Author: Sergei Daniel
3—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
4BIOGRAPHY
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7Santissima Trinità dei Monti.
8others the historical process moves forward by leaps
9Palazzo del Quirinale, Rome
10Landscape with Groves and Seated Figure
11Renaissance to the Enlightenment”.
12Attributed to Agostino Tassi, c. 1628 Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nantes
13doctrine of universal order.
14c. 1630 Etching, 10.2 x 16.8 cm Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris
15Pascal, Hobbes, Locke, and Leibniz.
16The Siege of La Rochelle by Louis XIII (October 1628)
17When in the planets, and the firmament
18Mill on a River
19Dryden, Congreve, Gryphius, Lope de Vega, Tirso de
20Molina, Alarcon, Calderon, Corneille, Racine, and
21Trees and Rocks by a Waterfall
22isation of reality during the Baroque era.
23a novel or an architectural ensemble - a work of
24always synthetic in nature.
25Landscape with the Rest on the Flight into Egypt
26that the greatest 17th-century writers more often than
27The idea of the close intercourse between and
281636 Oil on canvas, 56 x 72 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris
29treatise Il Cannochiale Aristotelico (The Telescope of
30Hence the basic importance of metaphor and allegory
311636 Etching, 12.6 x 19.5 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
32And precisely at this crucial point, in a seemingly
331637 Oil on canvas, 74 x 99 cm Alnwick Castle, Alnwick
34Moreover, the “mythology explosion” in Baroque art
35Oak Tree in the Campagna
36Fundamental to the understanding of 17th-
37Pastoral Lanscape
38Oil on canvas, 98 x 145 cm Duke of Westminster Collection
39Landscape with Lowland Plain in the Vicinity of Rome
40features: a sense of measure, structural logic, clarity of
41rational self-control and discipline, and, last of all, an
42Stone Pines with Two Figures
43expression of the dynamic spirit of the time.
44Two Ships in a Storm
45of this book.
461639 Etching, 12.4 x 17.3 cm State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg
47temptations of a sophisticated intellect, hardly able to
481639 Oil on copper, 30.5 x 37.5 cm Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
49superficial, if not totally incorrect. Claude Lorrain’s
50centre of international, rather than purely Italian, impor-
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