Similarities Between Augustus And The Sibyl

At the lecture, we discussed the role of a city or landscape as the background to the narratives in visual art, for example, the English countryside in the portraits of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew by T. Gainsborough to show their sense of possession and power over their land. In this painting however, it has truly captured the scenery of the landscape. The same concept also implemented itself to paintings like the 'Veduta of Delphi' (c1645) by Claude Lorrain and the 'Augustus and the Sibyl' by (c1578) Antoine Caron, but unlike Gainsborough's work, the settings on both paintings were the interpretation of the artist's perception of a place. The picturesque landscape that Lorrain had laid out on his work had elements of imaginative view he had deliberately