... what Claude saw, he would rearrange the surroundings and subject matter at a later date. The rearrangement followed artist rules usually taken from Greece and Rome or even biblical information and mythology, which was more pleasing to the eye (3). This meant he often painted idealised scenes with mythological characters providing a story to fit the landscape background. He also gave a more mysterious and ... that, Claude has given Arcadian overtones, Arcadia representing the location of the pastures and woods associated with the ancient gods, and the essential relationship in this work ...

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... abundance in art, but is modest and decent. The Simplicity is called a nymph, it was a popular motif in classic literature. In Greek mythology a nymph was a guardian spirit of nature. The poet stresses the connection between Simplicity and Nature. In the invocation of Simplicity the poet speaks ... Electra": "Soothed sweetly sad Electra's poet's ear". The metaphor "thy green retreat" means Athens, a place, which was a cradle of simple classical literature. There is no other literature which would be as equal in simplicity as Greek literature, which is expressed in the poem by means of ....

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• Grade Level: High School