ART H102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Claude Lorrain, Landscape Architecture, Nicolas Poussin
23 Nov 2017
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Versailles gardens were very manicured and orderly, making a point of the power of the king over his subjects. Inside the palace of versailles, all the furnishings were made by state run factories. *perfume industry: picked up momentum in louis era. Although the water was free, no one bathed. people were scared of water and immersing themselves in the water, because of death by diseases in water. Particularly their landscape paintings, had the kind of quality that left a huge impact. Merging historical, mythological and real settings. they are constructs of the perfect natural world. these are samples of sketches and places that the artist has seen and then mashed together into one painting. These men collected anything that could be considered tasteful (manuscripts, paintings, drawings, fragments, antiquities) Replacement of monarchy with the commonwealth of england. These travelers went out, seeking what was most worthy of being a painting.
