ART H102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Claude Glass, Claude Lorrain, Hyperbole
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Teaching the viewer about proper conduct and civility. Not conveyed in an over the top fashion. French, italian collectors would purchase these as well. Landscape architecture in england vs france and the picturesque tradition ** Ask you to think about ideas, requires more synthesis. England starts as a monarchy, and there will be a revolution: changes how the aristocracy looks at the crown. From italy, this will be the standard which you create the world. There was a right way to represent nature. When you represent the world: you try to extract out of it thinks that are perfect to create the perfect ideal! Artists would go out and sketch observational elements of the countryside: adhering to the formula has such a huge impact. A lot of lorrain"s work had elements of water. On the island he saw terrifying images (book of revelations)