Claude Lorrain

Joseph Mallord William Turner was an English artist who gained notoriety from his landscape paintings that utilize the dynamic lights that illuminate the scenery he builds. Joseph Turner’s work innovated and popularized landscape painting, which laid the foundation for impressionism to come into prevalence after the Romantic period. This is observed in his painting Rockets and Blue Lights, painted in 1840 with oil on canvas. Rockets and Blue Lights displays a coastal view of the ocean that…

All kinds of people contributed ideas and teachings to shape the Frenchmen. “They carried over the versatility of the Italy of the Renaissance” (Palmer 170). Nicholas Poussin and Claude Lorrain were what Italians would call Renaissance men, they produced a school of painters, architecture, and engineering that sparked ideas in human life. Socially the talk of the town consisted of the latest stories being written by people like Molière…