Editing Claude Lorrain (section)

===Architecture===
Claude only rarely painted topographical scenes showing the Renaissance and Baroque Roman architecture still being created in his lifetime, but often borrowed from it to work up imaginary buildings. Most of the buildings near the foreground of his paintings are grand imagined temples and palaces in a generally classical style, but without the attempt at archaeological rigour seen in Poussin's equivalents. Elements are borrowed and worked up from real buildings, both ancient and modern, and in the absence of much knowledge of what an ancient palace facade looked like, his palaces are more like the late Renaissance Roman palaces many of his clients lived in.  Buildings that are less clearly seen, such as the towers that often emerge above trees in his backgrounds, are often more like the vernacular and medieval buildings he would have seen around Rome.

One example of a semi-topographic painting with "modern" buildings (there are rather more such drawings)<ref>e.g., to mention just those with identifiable buildings, Kitson, #s 39, 62, 63, 70, 71, 72</ref> is ''A View of Rome'' (1632, NG 1319), which seems to represent the view from the roof of Claude's house, including his parish church and initial burial place of Santa Trinita del Monte, and other buildings such as the [[Quirinal Palace]].  This view takes up the left-hand side of the painting, but on the right, behind a group of genre figures in modern dress (uniquely for Claude, these represent a scene of prostitution in the Dutch [[Merry Company]] tradition), is a statue of Apollo and a [[Roman temple]] portico, both of which are either wholly imaginary or at least not placed in their actual locations.<ref>Wine (2001), 122; [https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/claude-a-view-in-rome image on NG page]</ref>
[[File:Claude Lorrain 008.jpg|right|thumb|''[[The Embarkation of the Queen of Sheba]]'' (1648), [[National Gallery]]]]

In a generic ''Seaport'' in the [[National Gallery]] (1644, NG5) a palace façade expanding on the gateway built about 1570 between the [[Farnese Gardens]] and the [[Roman Forum]] is next door to the [[Arch of Titus]], here apparently part of another palace.<ref>Wine (1994), 70</ref> Behind that Claude repeats a palace he had used before, that borrows from several buildings in and around Rome, including the [[Villa Farnesina]] and the [[Palazzo Senatorio]].<ref>Wine (2001), 50–52; [[:File:A Seaport by Claude.jpg|Image]]</ref> It is pointless to question how [[Ascanius]] finds in [[Latium]] a large stone temple in a fully developed [[Corinthian order]], that has evidently been crumbling into ruins for several centuries.