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clouds and horizons: *
Spengler states:
“…how should it surprise, then, if clouds and horizons, that are the very meaning and soul of Baroque landscapes, are totally wanting in the Classical backgroundless frescoes?”
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Apollonian frescoes, both from the villa at Boscotrecase, 11 BC
north wall of the Red Room, a sacro-idyllic landscape of a tomb with an altar & statue of a seated deity floating on a white background.
Perseus and Andromeda, eastern wall of the Mythological Room, showing multiple scenes from the story simultaneously, Perseus flies to the rock where Andromeda is chained to rescue her, in the background, he asks Andromeda's father, Cepheus, for her hand in marriage.
examples of Faustian Baroque oil landscapes (both 17th century)
Jan Hackaert (1628–1685) Dutch
Lake Zurich (landscape, oil on canvas) 1660-1662
Claude Lorrain (1600–1682) French
Ascanius Shooting the Stag of Sylvia (mythological, oil on canvas) 1682
