Tuesday, 18 October 2011 07:18

Claude Lorrain (c.1600-1682)

Claude Gellée Lorrain, known as Claude, has been called the father of European landscape painting. The Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, Oxford, England is currently presenting “Claude Lorrain: The Enchanted Landscape (October 6, 2011 - January 8, 2012). The exhibition includes 140 works, some of which compare drawings made outdoors and the paintings and prints for which they became studies.
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