'To the Ends of the Earth' explores poles' mystery and majesty Nov 9, 2008
Not by nibbling rats, or mold, or a marauding pirate's clumsy cutlass, but by Hodges himself, who, before the voyage was over, painted over the scene with a lush New Zealand landscape in the century-old manner of Claude Lorrain. (How do we know this. (Boston Globe)
Turner to be shown with Masters Sep 4, 2008
He felt an intense rivalry with the old masters who inspired him - such as Nicolas Poussin and Claude Lorrain. When he bequeathed two paintings to the National Gallery, it was on the condition that they be hung next to his two favourite works by Lorrain. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
WORKS BY BRIT ARTIST STILL A REAL HEAD-TURNER Jul 2, 2008
Warrell says the artist grew up worshipping the landscapes of 17th-century artist Claude Lorrain. "When he was young, he stood in front of a Lorrain painting and wept, because he thought he'd never be able to do anything like it.". (New York Post -- Entertainment)
Sketches of the Sublime: Exhibit at Cedar Grove traces the creation of iconic paintings May 2, 2008
His status as an outsider may play some role in his extraordinary vision, as may the European tradition of landscape artists like his compatriot John Constable and France's Claude Lorrain. Members of Cole's circle were unusual for American painters at the time, by working in oils outdoors--en plein air. (Hillsdale Independent, NY)
Exhibitions at The Met: Early 2009 Mar 29, 2008
Raphael to Renoir: Drawings from the Collection of Jean Bonna (January 21-April 26, 2009) features some 120 Italian, French and Northern European drawings from the Renaissance to the late 19th Century from a private Swiss collection, including works by , Andrea del Sarto, Claude Lorrain, Jean-Antoine Watteau, Canaletto, Th;odore G;ricault, Eug;ne Delacroix, Georges Seurat, Paul Gauguin and. Pierre Bonnard: Still Life and the Late Interiors (January 27-April 19, 2009) explores the interiors and... (Suite101.com)
Getty Displays Two Lorrain Works Feb 13, 2008
Two works by French Baroque landscape painter Claude Lorrain are on special view at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, California. Two masterpieces by French Baroque painter and draftsman Claude Lorrain (ca ... Of humble peasant origins, was later called Claude Lorrain after the French duchy or province that was his birthplace. (Suite101.com)
Twilight of the Sun King Jan 9, 2008
de Montebello's desk at the Met is an ormolu-encrusted French antique, and hanging across from it is a landscape painting by Claude Lorrain. There is also a conference table that appears to be School of Ethan Allen, and sitting there one morning, he talked about how running a museum had changed in three decades. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Scientists useart to track climate change Nov 29, 2007
The volcanic group included paintings by 19 artists, including Turner, Claude Lorrain, John Singleton Copley, Friedrich Caspar David, Breton Jules, Edgar Degas, Alexander Cozens and Gustav Klimt. The scientists measured the color ratio in all the paintings and found that those with the highest red to green ratio were in the volcanic group. (MSNBC -- Environment)
Maverick artists Hopper, Turner share the spotlight Nov 25, 2007
However, he was also a master of printmaking and draftsmanship and watercolor and oil technique, as illustrated by efforts as varied as his "Liber Studiorum" (Book of Studies) engravings or pastoral paintings reminiscent of Nicolas Poussin or Claude Lorrain. Born in Covent Garden, London, the son of a barber, Turner enrolled in the school of the prestigious and autocratic Royal Academy of Arts when he was 14. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
The Sunshine Boy Oct 13, 2007
His great hero was Claude Lorrain, the 17th century French landscape painter who invented formats like the idealized harbor, places flanked by classical piles, where a setting sun bears down gently on the horizon. In Caernarvon Castle, an early watercolor flushed with orange twilight, Turner took Lorrain's tranquil model and invested it with the nostalgia and high-minded melancholy of English Romanticism. (Time.com)
Paradise regained Aug 13, 2007
You would be better off ending your walk at the National Galleries on the Mound, where the permanent collection has something that connects directly with the source of Alexander Nasmyth's Grecian idyll and Richard Wright's geometrical fanaticism - a masterpiece by Claude Lorrain, the 17th-century French painter who conveyed the idea of classical landscape to the modern world. Nasmyth's paintings of Scottish castles and estates are influenced by him, and it is visibly a scene out of Claude he... (Guardian Unlimited)
Claude Lorrain May 22, 2007
17th-Century French Landscape Artist. His idealized landscape paintings - inspired by ancient Greek and Roman ideals - inspired later artists, gardeners, and landscape designers. (Suite101.com)
Art historian examines abundance, excess of French Renaissance through art, literature, architecture Mar 2, 2007
Through the prints of Albrecht Drer, Claude Lorrain, J.M.W. Turner and Marcantonio Raimondi, who collaborated with Raphael, the exhibition showcased the impact that printing had on conceptions of art and art making. Zorach received both her M.A. and Ph. (Univeristy of Chicago Chronicle, IL)
