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| Claude Lorrain, Port Scene, circa 1640. Williamstown, Clarke Institute. |
To balance his pictorial compositions, Claude Gellée - the Romans called Loreno Claudio, Claude Lorrain - divided the paper sketches preparatory four rectangles, which are subdivided into four triangles determined by their diagonals. He might as well choose a horizon line, divide and negative space, balance the architecture and trees, and finally locate the characters. All these elements are ordered in a integrated and seamless configuration, a gestalt would be more expressive in German, which firstly receives and mediates the light and allows other colors to have. The pulchrum , splendor own table will be born of a synthesis between these three types of sensitive: the color-sensitive clean the figured total sensitive common and brightness that is already in some way, a super-sensitive, we mean this or this splendor gloria of artwork that does not appear, but this shows that appears. It was she who, as we have already said, approaching the painting of the metaphysical fact that one see the invisible light, and it foreshadows the supra-intelligible. Paraphrasing the principle forma dat esse whereby gasoline is assigned to its degree of being and communicating it, we could say that, in aesthetics, forma dat claritatem in the sense that figured defines the beauty of the picture, or, beyond the pictorial art, that of the
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