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Claude and the Classical Dream

beauty to counterbalance the changeable effects of English weather.Nicholson finds Turner's sketchbook as the example of how Turner's idealization derives from the kind of exchange between the natural and the imaginary. She states, "His projection of a harmoniously arranged natural environment never subjects to the ravages of time imparted an elegance and breadth to his observation of the real world (223)". Nicholson finds his sketchbook to be a journey that embarks through imagination and the sensual. The first pages of the book depict a little ship ready for departure. Nicholson notes that in comparison of Claude's Seaport with the Embarkation of the Queen of Sheba, where Claude seems to beckon one to sail away, Turner elaborates on the ornate design of the classical seaport. Turner appeals more to the enclosed and to what is present to us. Turner's work progressed and finally reached Reynolds's fairyland where myth fully inhabits the landscape in his painting, Mercury and Herse. He begun this painting with the classical forms and qualities of Claude and proceeded to incorporate the myth into the landscape. Turner was crating both story and landscape....

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