Claude Lorraine

a_ landscape painter whose real name was Claude Gelée, but who was called Lorraine from the province where he was born in 1600. He traveled in Italy, France and Germany, but settled in 1627 in Rome, where his works were greatly Po for, and where he lived much at his ease until 1682, when he died of gout. He excelled in luminous atmospheric effects, of which he made loving and elaborate studies. He made small copies of all his pictures in six books known as “Libri di Verita” (Books of Truth), which form a work of great value.