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Claude Lorrain

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Claude Lorrain , whose original name was Claude Gelée or Gellée , 1600-1682, French painter, b. Lorraine. Claude was the foremost landscape painter of his time. In Rome at about 12 years of age he was employed as a pastry cook for the landscape painter Augustino Tassi, whose apprentice he soon became. He traveled in Italy and France, and returned to settle permanently in Rome by 1627. Under the patronage of Pope Urban VIII he rapidly rose to fame. His poetic treatment of landscape raised this subject matter to eminence alongside the more esteemed religious and historical genres.... Read more
Claude Lorrain
Claude Lorrain The French landscape painter, draftsman, and etcher Claude Lorrain (1600-1682) was regarded as the prince...impressionism in the mid-19th century. Claude Lorrain and Nicolas Poussin were the most distinguished... Read more
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