Claude Lorrain's 'Ideal View Of Trioli'

In the year of 1644 the French artist Claude Lorrain created a painting titled the “Ideal View of Trioli”. The painting that consists of two outstanding mediums; oil and canvas now resides in the New Orleans Museum of Art. The majority of the canvas focuses on the background that consists of a eerily creepy sunset in which the orange and pink colors combine perfectly along with the clouds and the ruins of what looks to be a decrepit roman city atop a rock covered mountain. Furthermore the city’s ruins in the background inhere a rounded building surrounded by tan columns. In addition to the columns that are stationed in the middle of the portrait there is a bridge that crosses a small, elegant waterfall on the left side of the background that ripples down the tan colored mountainside. On the outskirts of the portrait there are many trees which cause many to believe that the scene of the foreground takes place in the clearing of a forest. In the foreground of the portrait there are six animals that resemble cows that

throughout the painting we can view shading and shadowing that mesmerises and helps to fully appreciate the skill it takes to create. However, there are also parts of the portrait in which we see texture such as the texture of the many trees scattered throughout the landscape. An Additional example can be seen in the garments worn by the persons within the piece and the buildings in the background that seem be carved into. The principle balance may also be viewed upon further inspection. The way that the many trees wrap over the flowing river and the inhabitants of the landscape can be an example of symmetry. Last but certainly not least, the principle of proportion can be identified when you look into the distance you can clearly see the size difference between objects that are farther away such as the mountains and ones that are closer such as the common