Claude Lorrain And The Seventeenth-century Rome, An Ideal Landscape,

Claude Lorrain is a French painter who lived and worked in Rome througout his life.As a foreigner,Claude made great contributions to the development of ideal landscape paintings in Italy,and even the whole Europe.While producing his landscapes,Claude not only inherited the predecessors' great traditions,but also added his own easthetic feelings and philosophical principles,extracting nutritions from the Rome and Greece poets' depection about the idyllic and epic world.There is a concise introduction in the pretext about Claude's creating idea and philosophical basis.In the first Chapter,I mainly introduced the time when Clau(?)de lived,including the Rome fine arts' creation and theory background of the Seventeenth Century,a summary discussion about how the genre of landscape painting grew up,and how ideal landscape developed from it;I introduced the ideal landscape of Claude in the second chapter,including several mainly changing style in his whole life,and compared two other ideal landscape painters——Annibale Carracci and Nicolas Poussin with their works,but focusing on the characteristic points of Claude's art.In the last chapter,there is a whole impression about the influences of Claude's art on England and American landscape painting in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries,not only the creating idea but also the ways.I gave a whole arregation of this article in the conclution part.