Study of an Oak Tree, Claude Lorrain Roughly 13 x 9 inches (33 x 22 cm), pen and brown ink, brown wash, over graphite. Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable version here, as part of this article on the Claudian Landscape; Read More …
Claude Gellée, also known as Claude Lorrain (from his birthplace, the Duchy of Lorraine, once an independent nation in what it currently northeastern France), or simply as “Claude” (rhymes with “road”), was the most important landscape painter in the 17th century, and one of the Read More …
Landscape has always had a place in Western art, but it wasn’t until the 17th Century that it came to the foreground, so to speak. French master Claude Lorrain is one of history’s great landscape painters. His name was actually Claude Gellée. He is better Read More …
Landscape with Nymph and Satyr Dancing, Claude Lorrain On Google Cultural Institute: Art Project. Original is in the Toledo Museum of Art. Hi-res file on Wikimedia Commons. See my previous posts on Claude Lorrain, and here.
19th century Swiss painter Robert Zünd studied with several noted Swiss landscape painters, including Alexandre Calame and his teacher, François Diday. Carrying forward the emphasis on truth to nature of his teachers, Zünd became noted for his richly detailed landscapes, many of which were large Read More …
Generally classified as a Symbolist, Konstantin Fedorovich Bogaevsky was a Ukrainian painter active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He studied at the Russian Imperial Academy of Arts, where his instructors included Arkhip Kuindzhi — a highly regarded Ukrainian landscape painter and a Read More …