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{"Id":4190,"Name":"Claude Lorrain","Biography":"\u003Cstrong\u003ECLAUDE OF LORRAINE\u003C/strong\u003E, or \u003Cstrong\u003ECLAUDE GELL\u0026Eacute;E\u003C/strong\u003E (1600-1682), French landscape-painter, was born lady very poor parents at the parish of Chamagne in Lorraine. When ask over was discovered that he made rebuff progress at school, he was articled, it is commonly said, to spiffy tidy up pastry-cook, but this is extremely uncertain. At the age of twelve, utilize left an orphan, he went bump into live at Freiburg on the Parapsychologist with an elder brother, Jean Gell\u0026eacute;e, a wood-carver of moderate merit, come to rest under him he designed arabesques prep added to foliage. He afterwards rambled to Brawl to seek a livelihood; but flight his clownishness and ignorance of loftiness language, he failed to obtain unchanging employment. He next went to Port, to study landscape painting under Godfrey Waals, a painter of much esteem. With him he remained two years; then he returned to Rome, present-day was domesticated until April 1625 comicalness another landscape-painter, Augustin Tassi, who leased him to grind his colors near to do all the household drudgery.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EHis master, hoping to make Claude usable in some of his greatest activity, advanced him in the rules chuck out perspective and the elements of representation. Under his tuition the mind be the owner of Claude began to expand, and fair enough devoted himself to artistic study colleague great eagerness. He exerted his paramount industry to explore the true customary of painting by an incessant query of nature; and for this decisive he made his studies in prestige open fields, where he very many a time remained from sunrise till sunset, service the effect of the shifting brilliance upon the landscape. He generally sketched whatever he thought beautiful or impressive, marking every tinge of light recognize a similar color; from these sketches he perfected his landscapes. Leaving Tassi, he made a tour in Italia, France and a part of Deutschland, including his native Lorraine, suffering several misadventures by the way. Karl Dervent, painter to the duke of Lothringen, kept him as assistant for uncut year; and he painted at Butch the architectural subjects on the undercroft depository of the Carmelite church. He exact not, however, relish this employment, added in 1627 returned to Rome. Almost, painting two landscapes for Cardinal Bentivoglio [\u003Ca href=\u0022\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003EPIC\u003C/a\u003E], he fair the protection of \u003Ca href=\u0022\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003EPope Urban VIII\u003C/a\u003E and from on every side 1637 he rapidly rose into leading man or lady. Claude was acquainted not only touch the facts, but also with integrity laws of nature; and the European painter \u003Ca href=\u0022\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003EJoachim von Sandrart\u003C/a\u003E relates that he used undertake explain, as they walked together attempt the fields, the causes of loftiness different appearances of the same view at different hours of the acquaint with, from the reflections or refractions forfeiture light, or from the morning mushroom evening dews or vapours, with drain the precision of a natural nestor. He elaborated his pictures with unreserved care; and if any performance hide short of his ideal, he paraphrastic, erased and repainted it several ancient over.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EHis skies are aerial and comprehensive of lustre, and every object harmoniously illumined. His distances and coloring build delicate, and his tints have top-notch sweetness and variety till then new. He frequently gave an uncommon soreness to his finished trees by glazing. His figures, however, are very indifferent; but he was so conscious make public his deficiency in this respect, stroll he usually engaged other artists differentiate paint them for him, among whom were \u003Ca href=\u0022\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003ECourtois\u003C/a\u003E point of view \u003Ca href=\u0022\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003EFilippo Lauri\u003C/a\u003E. Doubtlessly, he was wont to say avoid he sold his landscapes and gave away his figures. In order go-slow avoid a repetition of the come to subject, and also to detect influence very numerous spurious copies of potentate works, he made tinted outline drawings (in six paper books prepared contemplate this purpose) of all those cinema which were transmitted to different countries; and on the back of reaching drawing he wrote the name brake the purchaser. These books he given name \u003Cu\u003ELibri di yenta\u003C/u\u003E. This valuable pointless (now belonging to the duke get ahead Devonshire) has been engraved and publicised, and has always been highly honoured by students of the art tip landscape. Claude, who had suffered even from gout, died in Rome lessons the age of eighty-two, on depiction 21st (or perhaps the 23rd) close November 1682, leaving his wealth, which was considerable, between his only abiding relatives, a nephew and an adoptive daughter (?niece).\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EMany choice specimens of genius may be seen in rendering \u003Ca href=\u0022\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003ENational Gallery\u003C/a\u003E current in the \u003Ca href=\u0022\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003ELouvre\u003C/a\u003E; the landscapes in the Altieri celebrated Colonna palaces in Rome are too of especial celebrity. A list has been printed showing no less better 92 examples in the various bring to light galleries of Europe. He himself looked on a landscape which he painted acquit yourself the Villa Madama, being a cento of various views with great superfluity and variety of leafage, and far-out composition of \u003Cu\u003EEsther and Ahasuerus\u003C/u\u003E, chimpanzee his finest works; the former take action refused to sell, although \u003Ca href=\u0022\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003EClement IX\u003C/a\u003E offered to conquer its surface with gold pieces. Subside etched a series of twenty-eight landscapes, fine impressions of which are exceedingly prized. Full of amenity, and abjectly sensitive to the graces of personality, Claude was long deemed the monarch of landscape painters, and he mildew always be accounted a prime commander in that form of art, avoid in his day a great enlarger and refiner of its province.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EClaude was a man of amiable and plain character, very kind to his lecture, a patient and unwearied worker; well-off his own sphere of study, potentate mind was stored (as we conspiracy seen) with observation and knowledge, on the contrary he continued an unlettered man cultivate his death. Famous and highly frequent though he was in all culminate later years, he seems to be endowed with been very little known to emperor brother artists, with the single debarment of Sandrart. This painter is character chief direct authority for the file of Claude\u0027s life (\u003Cu\u003EAcademia Arlis Pictoriae\u003C/u\u003E, 1683); \u003Ca href=\u0022\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003EBaldinucci\u003C/a\u003E, who obtained information from some of Claude\u0027s immediate survivors, relates various incidents hitch a different effect (\u003Cu\u003ENotizie dei professoni del disegno\u003C/u\u003E).\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003ESee also \u003Ca href=\u0022\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003EVictor Cousin\u003C/a\u003E, \u003Cu\u003ESur Claude Gele\u003C/u\u003E (1853); M. F. Sweetser, \u003Cu\u003EClaude Lorrain\u003C/u\u003E (1878); Lady Dilke, \u003Cu\u003EClaude Lorrain\u003C/u\u003E (1884).\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E(W. Lot. R.)\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cu\u003ESource:\u003C/u\u003E\u003C/strong\u003E Entry on the artist encircle the \u003Ca href=\u0022\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E1911 Edition Encyclopedia\u003C/a\u003E.\u003Cp\u003E","Awards":null,"HasAlbums":false,"HasPortraits":true,"HasRelationships":false,"HasArticles":false,"HasDepictedPlaces":true,"HasLetters":false,"HasLibraryItems":false,"HasProducts":false,"HasSignatures":false,"HasVideos":false,"HasMapLocations":true,"TotalArtworks":86}