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Claude Joseph Vernet
Moonlight Scene, 1760
Claude Joseph Vernet's dramatic scenes of shipwrecks and picturesque harbor scenes are forerunners of the Romantic landscape painters in their emphasis on extremes of lighting and the awesome effects of nature. Vernet's paintings later influenced Romantic artists who built upon Vernet's slightly theatrical approach to convey great emotional power and to represent nature in all its majesty and variety. |