Claude Lorraine, 1600 - 1682 was a 17th century French painter who moved to Rome and became famous for producing great classical landscapes.
Important works of art include:
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Landscape with Aeneas at Delos, 1672, was painted by Claude Lorraine and is held in the National Gallery, London, UK.
The Adoration of the Golden Calf, 1660, Manchester City Art Galleries, Manchester, UK.
Landscape with the Port of Santa Marinella, 1637-8 was painted by Claude Lorraine and is held in the Petit Palais, Paris, France.
Seaport, with the Embarkation of the Queen of Sheba, 1648 was painted by Claude Lorraine and held in the National Gallery, London, UK.
Turner Inspired: In the Light of Claude is the most in-depth examination of Turner's experience of Claude's art to date.
Landscape painting started in earnest in Rome in the first half of the seventeenth century.
Featuring more than 100 works, the exhibition Rome: Nature and the Ideal. Landscapes 1600-1650 is exhibited at the Museo del Prado.
Sketches from life, preparatory drawings, large-scale landscape compositions depicting religious or mythological scenes are all central to the oeuvre.
A pivotal point in art history, it was in Rome, in the first half of the 17th century that landscape painting began in earnest.
The Stadel Museum will show one hundred and thirty works created at different points in Claude Lorrain's career.
The Louvre Museum, with its spectacular glass pyramid, is an icon of Paris and one of the world's most-visited cultural sites.
There is a great variety of artefacts in the museum, donated by enthusiastic and eclectic collectors.
The National Gallery houses the national collection of Western European painting from the 13th to 19th century.
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