Claude Lorrain
At a glance:
- Series: Dictionary of World Biography: The 17th and 18th Centuries
- Categories: Arts
- Subcategories: Artists, Artisans, Painting, Painters, Drawing
- Curriculum: French History, 17th Century European History
Article abstract: Claude established landscape in Roman and French painting as a subtle and varied means of artistic expression on an equal level with the older genres of religious and historical painting. He is one of the greatest masters of all time in the ideal landscape.
Early Life
Claude Gellée, known to the French as le Lorrain, was born in the village of Chamagne in the Duchy of Lorraine, the third of five sons. In 1612, his parents died and he went to Freiburg im Breisgau to live with an elder brother, Jean, a wood-carver. In 1613, he...
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