Claude Lorrain
Category: Books,Arts & Photography,History & Criticism
Claude Lorrain Details
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 edition. Excerpt: ...The windows as if latched by Fays and Elves. And Irom them comes a silver flash of light, As from the westward of a summer night, Or like a beauteous woman's large blue eyes Gone mad thro' olden songs and poesies. See! What is coming from the distance dim! A golden galley all in silken trim! Three rows of oars are lightening, moment whiles Into the verd'rous bosoms of these isles; Towards the shade under the castle wall It comes in silence,--now 'tis hidden all. The clarion sounds and from a postern gate An echo of sweet music doth create A fear in the poor herdsman, who doth bring His beasts to trouble the enchanted spring--He tells of the sweet music and the spot To all his friends and they believe him not." Another constant patron of the artist at this period was Monseigneur de Bourlemont, who in 1644 went to Rome to obtain the Pope's confirmation of his election to the Archbishopric of Toulouse. Between that date and the prelate's second visit to Rome in 1667, Claude painted three landscapes and a marine for him, Moses and the Burning Bush (L. V. 161), Cephalus and Procris (L. V. 163), Apollo and the Cumcean Sibyl (L. V. 164), Demosthenes on the Sea-shore (L. V. 171). Of these works one, the Cephalus and Procris is in the Doria Palace at Rome, the others have found their way to England. The Moses and the Burning Bush, now in the Bridge water Collection, is a large landscape, excellent in tone. A majestic tree occupies the middle of the foreground. Behind stretches a broad and varied expanse of undulating country. Unfortunately the general effect is sadly marred by the obtrusive figure of Moses in the centre, supplicating the burning bush, for which bush we have to look some time before we discover it, a red-brown patch of paint, high...
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