... His principal teacher, an Italian painter called Agostino Tassi, taught him the basics of perspective, landscape and seascape art (2). By 1633 Claude had found his definitive landscape style and joined Rome's Accademia di San Luca. He influenced landscape painting and garden design, though his ... which contains sepia drawings and etchings of almost all his paintings, creating a record of his most beautiful draftmanship (8). Claude did not construct these sketches as finished items. He always thought ahead, their usage would become part of the finished composition. Claude not only drew...

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... Ovid." "The placing of the trees, the distant hills, the bridge in the middle distance and the figures in the foreground are almost identical, but Turner lacks the lucidity of Claude and suggests a Northern Haze rather than the clear Roman light" (Chamot 9) He also painted "Dido Building Carthage" which he ... and "Sun Rising Through Vapour" were his greatest works that he bequeathed them to the country only if they were to be hung next to Claude's Seaport" and "Mill." "Turner's last two pictures, shown before he set out for Italy in August were an epitome of his work up ... of the Meus...

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... . J.M. W. Turner achieved the most radical pictorial vision of any Romantic artist. Beginning with landscapes reminiscent of the 17th -century French painter Claude Lorrain, he became, in such later works as, "Snow Storm: Steam Boat Off a Harbour's Mouth", (1842), almost entirely concerned with atmospheric effects of light and colour, mixing clouds, mist, snow, and sea into a vortex in which all distinct objects ... distance eventually become indistinct, and as the misty atmosphere, lit by the rising or setting sun, blazes into scarlets and vermilions, they fade away. Chromatic harmonies...

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... the trees and streets. John Glover settled in Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania) in 1831 after a successful artistic career in Britain. Such European landscape masters of the late 1700's as Claude Lorraine, Salvator Rosa, and Gaspard Poussin influenced Glover in his work. As a result, his landscapes are rendered in an idealized manner. Glovers painting "The River Nile, Van Diemen's land", show ... yellow, which gives the painting a romantic feel. He has showed the Aboriginals bathing in the semi-transparent blue waters, in a friendly nature by having them standing around in the water almo...

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