Claude Lorrain, 1643 - The Trojan Women Setting Fire to Their Fleet - fine art print

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In an effort to end years of wandering after the fall of Troy, the Trojan women set fire to their ships. The clouds and rain in the distance presage the storm sent by Jupiter at Aeneas’s request to quench the blaze. This painting was made in Rome for cardinal Girolamo Farnese. The subject, drawn from Virgil’s Aeneid (V:604–95), must have especially appealed to the learned prelate who returned to Rome in 1643, after years of itinerant service as papal nuncio combating Calvinism in remote Alpine cantons of the Swiss Confederation.

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The more than 370 year-old artpiece was painted by the male French painter Claude Lorrain in the year 1643. The version of the artwork was painted with the absolute size: 41 3/8 x 59 7/8 in (105,1 x 152,1 cm). Oil on canvas was used by the French painter as the medium of the work of art. Nowadays, the artwork can be viewed in in the digital collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which is one of the world's largest and finest art museums, which includes more than two million works of art spanning five thousand years of world culture, from prehistory to the present and from every part of the globe.. The classic art public domain work of art is provided - courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Fletcher Fund, 1955. Creditline of the artwork: Fletcher Fund, 1955. Moreover, alignment is in landscape format with a ratio of 1.4 : 1, meaning that the length is 40% longer than the width. Claude Lorrain was a male painter of French nationality, whose style can be attributed mainly to Baroque. The artist was born in the year 1600 in Champagne, Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes, France and died at the age of 82 in the year 1682 in Rome, Roma province, Lazio, Italy.

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