Claude-Joseph Vernet

Claude-Joseph Vernet, the painter who asked to be tied to the mast
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Claude-Joseph Vernet, the painter who asked to be tied to the mast

In eighteenth-century Europe, marine painters decorated walls with ships. Claude-Joseph Vernet did something more uncomfortable: he pursued the sea until it had no glamour left, only structure and force. The two projects he carried simultaneously—catastrophe for English collectors,…