William Gilpin supposedly attached a large one of these objects to his carriage in pursuit of his favored picturesque ideal. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name these reflective objects used by some 18th-century landscape painters. Users would face away from a scene and view it in these slightly convex objects, which compressed the tonal range to match the style of these objects’ namesake.
ANSWER: Claude glasses [prompt on black mirrors] (Named for Claude Lorrain.)
[10e] A man wearing a tricorn hat examines a landscape in a Claude glass in a circa 1750 sketch by this artist, who showed a pastoral landscape on the right side of his double portrait Mr. and Mrs. Andrews.
ANSWER: Thomas Gainsborough
[10m] This polymath called the Claude glass “one of the most pestilent inventions for falsifying Nature.” This man coined the term “pathetic fallacy” for art that assigned aspects of nature human emotions
ANSWER: John Ruskin (Ruskin coined “pathetic fallacy” in Modern Painters.)
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