Claude Lorrain
(1600 - 1682)

<i> Claude Lorrain (born Claude Gellée, called le Lorrain in French; traditionally just Claude in English) was a French painter, draughtsman and etcher of the Baroque era. He spent most of his life in Italy, and is one of the earliest important artists, apart from his contemporaries in Dutch Golden Age painting, to concentrate on landscape painting. His landscapes are usually turned into the more prestigious genre of history paintings by the addition of a few small figures, typically representing a scene from the Bible or classical mythology.  </i>

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Capriccio with ruins of the Roman Forum
Circa 1634
Oil on canvas
79,7 x 118,8 cm
Art Gallery of South Australia
https://www.agsa.sa.gov.au/collection-publications/collection/works/capriccio-with-ruins-of-the-roman-forum/23904/