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.
Claude Lorrain was a 17th century French painter who created hazy landscape vistas. His work was wildly popular and because he was quite specific about the location of the vistas he painted, and because his popularity coincided with the height of the “Grand Tour” craze, he inspired his own kind of tourism. 
 
 Not only did people traveling around Europe include sites Claude painted on their itineraries, they brought along a special apparatus called the Claude glass. The Claude glass was essentially a tinted convex mirror that could be held up to a real-life landscape to achieve a view that mimicked the soft framing that the painter rendered in his works. 

Botanist on Alp No. 1