Claude Lorrain--the Painter as Draftsman
Claude Lorrain--the Painter as Draftsman

Author: Richard Rand

Publisher:

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13:

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The great French artist Claude Lorrain (1600-1682)--for whom drawing was an integral part of the artistic process--spent most of his career in Italy, where he documented the beauty of the landscape and the splendor of classical ruins. This richly illustrated book examines the wide-ranging role the medium played throughout Claude's career. The book presents some of Claude’s most remarkable drawings, representing all aspects of his style and subject matter--from informal outdoor sketches of trees, rivers, and ruins to formal presentation drawings and elaborate compositional designs for paintings, many of which have never before been reproduced in color. A detailed and scholarly essay places them within the social and cultural contexts of their time and includes comparative illustrations of paintings and etchings to situate them within the artist's oeuvre. A selection of works from the Liber Veritatis (Book of Truth), a portfolio of highly finished drawings that the artist created to document his own painted compositions, is also included.

Claude Lorrain
Claude Lorrain

Author: Martin Sonnabend

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 9781848220928

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Claude Lorrain (1604-82) is known as the father of European landscape painting. This book sets out to re-appraise his work and look at it through fresh eyes. It unites in a single volume paintings, drawings, and prints from all periods of the artist's life.

Turner Inspired
Turner Inspired

Author: Ian Warrell

Publisher: National Gallery London

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781857095371

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This title examines the ways in which Turner consistently strove to confront Claude's achievement and legacy.

Poetry, Painting, Park
Poetry, Painting, Park

Author: Franz R Kempf

Publisher: Legenda

Published: 2022-03-28

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9781781884133

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Imbued with a pulsating energy that emanates from the sun, Claude Lorrain's landscape draws on the interplay of light and darkness to effect a 'living whole' and evoke the symbolic. In a life-long conversation with Lorrain - recorded in texts as diverse as 'Amor as Landscape Painter', Faust, and the Doctrine of Colours - Goethe conducts an inquiry into the dialectics of nature and art, imitation and invention, subject and object. Goethe seeks to comprehend Lorrain by reenacting him in words, in ekphrastic mode, as an experience and an idea. The inquiry remains open-ended for landscape is a paradox: the real, the spiritual, and the affective meet without merging. This aesthetic discovery and visualization of nature as landscape is consonant with the attempt to grasp the world and our place in it. The three sister arts of poetry, painting, and horticulture serve as mirrors for Goethe's self-understanding as an artist, including his ambivalence vis-à-vis the English Garden as articulated, for instance, in the novel Elective Affinities. Franz R. Kempf is Professor of German Studies at Bard College.

The Etchings of Claude Lorrain
The Etchings of Claude Lorrain

Author: Claude Lorrain

Publisher:

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 9780300042221

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This book begins with several chapters that deal with the life of Claude and with background information on printmaking of the era. The catalog then provides accurate descriptions and clear illustrations of all the different states that Claude himself created-including more than a dozen previously unpublished early states-as well as all the reprints and alterations to which the copperplates were subjected by later hands.