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Claude Lorrain

Type Figure Region France Time c. 1600–1682 Also known as Lorrain

Claude Lorrain (c. 1600–1682) was a French-born Baroque landscape painter, active in Rome from the 1630s, who pioneered an independent European tradi…

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  1. 1631–1640Rome · LazioEstablished his professional reputation in Rome in the 1630s, painting the Tiber's banks, ancient Roman ruins, and pastoral scenes, blending classical mythological narratives with precise atmospheric perspective. Works of this period, such as Landscape with Cattle and Ulysses and Cephalus, display his signature golden light and deep space.
  2. 1641–1682Rome · LazioFor the following decades he continued painting for popes, cardinals, and European nobility, and established the Liber Veritatis to record his works against forgery. His late style grew more serene and stately; he died in Rome on 23 November 1682 and was buried in the church of the Trinità dei Monti.

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