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Claude Lorrain (French: [klod lɔ.ʁɛ̃]; born Claude Gellée, called le Lorrain in French; traditionally just Claude in English; c. 1600 – 23 November 1682) was a French painter, draughtsman and etcher of the Baroque era.
This and similar works by Claude inspired J. M. W. Turner to paint Dido Building Carthage and The Decline of the Carthaginian Empire, which Turner left to the nation as part of the Turner Bequest on the condition that they were to be hung besides Claude's pair of works. [3] It is numbered 114 in Claude's Liber Veritatis.
The Battle of the Milvian Bridge (1655) by Claude Lorrain. The Battle of the Milvian Bridge, The Battle of the Bridge or The Battle Between the Emperors Maxentius and Constantine is a 1655 oil on canvas painting by Claude Lorrain, now in the Pushkin Museum in Moscow.
Landscape with Ascanius Shooting the Stag of Sylvia, Ashmolean Museum. Landscape with Ascanius Shooting the Stag of Sylvia is a painting of 1682 in oil on canvas by Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée, traditionally just "Claude" in English), a painter from the Duchy of Lorraine who spent his career in Rome.
Claude Lorrain painted The Trojan Women Set Fire to their Fleet around 1643 at the behest of Cardinal Girolamo Farnese. [1] The scene is Lorrain's take on a famed event in Book 5 of the Aeneid in which the exiled women of Troy, spurred on by the Greek goddess Juno, burn the Trojan fleet to force their men to stop roaming and settle in Sicily.
Landscape with Tobias and Raphael is a 1639-40 painting by Claude Lorrain, one of a series of paintings commissioned from the artist for the Palacio del Buen Retiro and now in the Prado Museum in Madrid.
The work was painted in Rome, with sketch 136 in his Liber Veritatis equating to it. [1] Below that sketch is the inscription "facto al pio Cardinal […] creato pero giusto pap […]" ("made for the pious cardinal […] elected pope […]") - the word "Cardinal" is very close to the edge of the sheet and it seems likely that the name of the commissioner was cut off when binding the scattered ...
Seaport with the Embarkation of Saint Ursula is an oil painting on canvas of 1641 by Claude Lorrain, signed and dated by the artist. [1] The work was produced for Fausto Poli, who two years later was made a cardinal by Pope Urban VIII.