Claude Gellée, called Le Lorrain and in Spain Claudio de Lorena, was a French painter living in Rome and one of the most important representatives of Classicist landscapes of the XVIIth century. He trained in his home town with his elder brother, but on moving to Rome he met the painter Agostino Tassi, who transmitted to him the tradition of the classical landscape and the concept of northern nature in the manner of Elsheimer. In the city of the Tiber he enjoyed the protection of Cardinal Bentivoglio and Cardinal Colonna and Pope Urban XVIII himself. In his art we can appreciate the influence of the Bolognese Classicists. His work was so valued that he had numerous imitators, which forced him to make a register of his work in the "Liber veritatis", reproducing his different pictures in drawings.
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