Biography
Fortunately, in order to close the masterpieces of the brush of the Great French artist Claude Lorrena, the inhabitants of the Russian Federation are not necessarily sent abroad - a lot of work is kept in cultural institutions located on the Russian land. For example, St. Petersburg Hermitage owns it "in the morning", "half-one", "evening" and "night", and the Moscow Museum named after Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin, founded by the father of Marina Tsvetaeva, glad to introduce visitors to the "Landscape with Apollo and Marty".Childhood and youth
Claude Lorren, whose real name - gallop, or jelly, has suffered the same fate as many artists who lived a few centuries ago. Namely - to our time, the genuine date of his birth was not preserved, the experts of the visual arts are called the 1600th, 1602th, 1604th from 1605th. But the place of appearance on the light is known - in the village, located in the Duchy of Lorraine, the peasant of Anna gave her husband to Jean a third of five sons.
The early biography of the future French artist recalls the children's years of his Soviet colleague Fedor Reshetnikov - both early orphaned (Lorren, if you believe sources, - at 12 years old). Treight for the arts, they attracted elder brothers to both: the creator of the famous painting "Again, Two" was the icon painter, who had written the favorite "landscape with Aziz and Galatei" of Fyodor Dostoevsky - Engraver in Germany.
Around 1613-1614, Claude went to Italy, where he worked as a cook with Tassa, glorified not only with his works, but also scandals in his personal life. It is known that in the school in his native Shaman, the teenager taught sciences was reluctant, but it took the mystery of the preparation of dishes from the local confectioner and was considered a culinary master. Subsequently, the rapist of Artemisia Jegeniski turned the servant to his student who was taught with landscape painting.
In the future, the guy managed to get under the wing of Gottfried Wiel, who passed the ward the skills of perspective and architecture, then to the namesake of Claude Derey.
Personal life
Claude never consisted of official marriage, nevertheless in 1658 he had a child. Some sources argued that Lorrane admire the girl Ageles, others - that she could be real his daughter from the maid. However, the artist's house was not empty - in a couple of years after the birth of the baby to the uncle moved to live two nephews, Jean and Joseph.Painting
The creative path began at Lorrene from the fulfillment of custom decorative works, but later, improving his own letter and style technique, he became a professional landscape system and an etch. The first canvas, which came out of the artist's brushes, is considered "Landscape with cattle and peasants", dated about 1629.
Gradually, interest in the works of Claude increased, and in the number of its clients, there were titled specials - the French ambassador to the Vatican, the Spanish King of Philip IV, Pope Urban VIII, Cardinal Guido Betivolo, Prince of Column.
"Lorren created his own version of the majestic classic ideal landscape, in which spatial unity is achieved due to the subtlest development of the light-air environment, the effect of scattered morning or evening light, melting in a golden haze," experts wrote.Often, the paintings of the painter met biblical ("Morning", "Night", "Landscape with Maria Magdalina"), mythological ("Abduction of Europe", "Landscape with Aziz and Galatei") and pastoral plots (Roman landscape), brought They are up to perfection. The embodied innovative ideas includes the image of the Sun, which for those years was considered a huge rare.
Death
An outstanding landscape officer died at the end of November 1682, the 21st or 23rd of the 23rd, in Rome: the exact cause of death is unknown, but there was information that Claude's health has been strongly undermined by the gout. It was originally buried in Trinita-de-Monti, but then the remains were transported to San Luigi-de-Francise.As mentioned above, several paintings of Lorrene carefully stored in the Hermitage, who are interested in art can get acquainted with them personally, as well as through photographs on the official website of the St. Petersburg Museum.
Paintings
- About 1629 - "Landscape with cattle and peasants"
- About 1636 - "Sea Harbor"
- About 1637-1639 - "Moses saved from the Nile" ("Salvation of Moses")
- About 1639 - "Landscape with Apollo and Martier"
- 1641 - "Silute Saint Ursula"
- 1646 - "Landscape with dancing satirs and nymphs" ("Landscape with Satirov and Nymph dance")
- 1648 - "The sail of Queen Sava"
- 1654 - "Landscape with a rest of the rest on the way to Egypt" ("noon")
- 1657 - "Landscape with Acyc and Galatea"
- 1663 - "Landscape with Tobee and Angel" ("Evening")
- 1666 - "Landscape with Jacob, Rakhil and Leah at the Well" ("Morning")
- 1672 - "Landscape with the scene of the struggle of Jacob with an angel" ("Night")
- 1672 - "Landscape with Eneem on Delome" ("Delos coast view with Eneem")
- 1674 - "Sea Port"
- 1682 - "Landscape with Asking, shooting in a deer" ("Askani, hunting for deer Sylvina")