Claude Lorrain
1600–1682 · Baroque, Realism · 16 works
Claude Lorrain made landscape a setting for both light and storytelling. Working in Rome, he developed carefully ordered views in which trees, buildings, water, and distant hills guide the eye through space. Classical or biblical figures often occupy only a small part of the scene. These are composed worlds rather than straightforward records of a location: in View of Delphi with a Procession, ancient buildings appear as he imagined them restored. Drawings and prints offer other ways to follow his interest in the structure and atmosphere of a landscape.
16 works · 1625–1673
In View of Delphi with a Procession, find the figures first, then follow the light toward the distance. Which occupies more of your attention?
1625–1637 · 9 works
Walk these 9In the museum: Baroque room · 1 work
1640–1645 · 3 works
Walk these 3In the museum: Baroque room · 2 works
1652–1673 · 4 works
Walk these 4In the museum: Baroque room · 3 works
Adriaen van Ostade
The Painter, c. 1647
Aelbert Cuyp
View of IJsselmonde Seen Across the New Maas, c. 1640
Agostino Carracci
The Sacrifice of Pelias to Neptune, 1584
