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I feel like the colors in this painting are very true to real life. If I were to go to the ocean in Rome, I would expect it to be the color depicted here. Upon closer look at the clothes worn by the people, I see a trend between red, dark blue or black and brown. I assume that the people wearing red are of nobility while the ones in black or blue or brown are of lower social status. Also, the colors of the ruins on the left appear dirtier than the colors used on the castle on the right. This is done possibly to depict the age of the ruins versus the age of the castle.
Commissioned by the general of the Papal army, The Duc de Bouillon, Lorrain painted this piece as a depiction of the embarkation of the Queen of Sheba's visit with King Solomon in Jerusalem
As I spend more time looking at this painting,
I notice that the Queen of Sheba is actually shown in the work. It appears as if she is at the bottom of the stairs coming from the castle on the right. It took me a few minutes to realize that the group of people on the stairs was not just a random group, it was the Queen's entourage. I then noticed the men shown in the bottom middle of the painting loading what I presume to be one of the Queen's trunks on to the small boat to be taken to the ship out in the distance that is being loaded by other boats. Examining the smaller boats closer, I notice that the one that the Queen is about to enter is decorated elaborately.
When I first turned to page nine in our text book, my eye was drawn to this image almost immediately. The contrast between the bright yellow of the sun and teal green of the sea makes it hard to miss.
Kleiner, F. S. (2014). Gardner’s art through the ages: The western perspective (14th ed., Vol. II). Boston, MA: Wadsworth, Cengage Learning
Seaport with the Embarkation of the Queen of Sheba. (2014, September 29). Retrieved September 29, 2014, from http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/claude-seaport-with-the-embarkation-of-the-queen-of-sheba
As mentioned in our text book, Lorrain does an exceptional job at making sure the perspective of the items in the foreground and back ground are proper; the closer they are to the front of the painting, the bigger they are. Also, there are imaginary diagonal lines that draws the eye out to the sea.