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Claude Lorrain
Ulysses Returns Chryseis to Her Father, oil on canvas by Claude Lorrain, c. 1644; in the Louvre, Paris. 119 Ć 150 cm.
In Rome, Claude Lorrain was trained as an artist by Agostino Tassi, a landscapist and the leading Italian painter of illusionistic architectural frescoes. Tassi taught Claude the fundamental vocabulary of his art, including landscapes and coast scenes, and instilled in him a lasting interest in perspective and landscape painting. Additionally, Claude likely spent time in Naples with Goffredo Wals, who was also a pupil of Tassi.1