Claude Lorrain
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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It’s a mythological painting inspired by Ovid and based on a composition by the 17th-century painter Claude Lorrain.
From Washington Post • Feb. 1, 2023
Hills, trees and a shimmering lake are laid out in a subtly dynamic diagonal grid, which reflects the painter’s admiration for the popular French landscape artist Claude Lorrain.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 20, 2021
Next year's exhibition, Constable: The Making of a Master, will put his works alongside those of landscape Old Masters including Jacob van Ruisdael and Claude Lorrain.
From BBC • Nov. 26, 2013
With its grotto, temples and water features, it illustrates how an 18th-century gentleman envisioned an earthly paradise – albeit through the eyes of Poussin and Claude Lorrain.
From The Guardian • Aug. 17, 2012
In fact, Wilson was nurtured on Claude Lorrain and Joseph Vernet and instead of painting the realistic English landscape he painted the pseudo-Italian landscape.
From A Text-Book of the History of Painting by Van Dyke, John Charles
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