Seventeenth century taste exemplified by Claude Lorrain's fantasy picture that sets the Villa Medici (the current location of the French School in Rome) on some distant classical shore.
At sunset.
JMW Turner - where are you?
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| now in the Uffizi Gallery Florence |
Painted by Claude in 1637 while the château and town of Richelieu were actually being constructed...
hommage à
Annick L
créature du cardinal duc!
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| villa medici today |
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| One of JMW's many ripostes to Claud |
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