Panoramas are not what they used to be.
Claude has been dead a long time
And apostrophes are forbidden on the funicular.
Marx has ruined Nature,
For the moment.
For myself, I live by leaves,
So that corridors of clouds,
Corridors of cloudy thoughts,
Seem pretty much one:
I don't know what.
But in Claude how near one was
(In a world that is resting on pillars,
That was seen through arches)
To the central composition,
The essential theme.
What composition is there in all this:
Because Claude was an artist of the Baroque period, any evidence of humans that his landscapes held pointed towards nobility, opulence, and classical styles of architecture and dress. In fact, some of his paintings actually included Greco-Roman figures galavanting. 

Botanist on Alp No. 1