Claude Lorrain
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...zh la , 1600 1682, French painter, b. Lorraine. Claude was the foremost landscape painter of his time. In...as a pastry cook for the landscape painter Augustino Tassi...His poetic treatment of landscape raised this subject matter...and background in his later landscapes he opened up unlimited vistas...