Claude Lorrain (GELLEE), 1600-1682

French landscape painter, active in Italy; unsurpa ed and rarely equaled, even in 17th century art; specially famed for effects of sunlight. His subjects generally were ostensibly cla ical and imaginative. Paintings in the Doria and Sciarra Palaces at Rome. Louvre, Paris; Hermitage, St. Petersburg; London and Dresden. The paintings of Turner were willed to the National Gallery of London on condition that a Turner landscape should hang beside a C. The Liber Veritates , owned by the Duke of Devons hire, is a series of sketches recording C.'s work between 1634 and 1675. Claudianus, CLAUDIUS, d. ab. 408. Last important cla ic Latin poet. Two epics and several panegyrics survive.