The Trojan Women Set Fire to their Fleet (Claude Lorrain)
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| Artist | Claude Lorrain |
| Year | c. 1643 |
| Medium | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 105.1 cm × 152.1 cm (41.4 in × 59.9 in) |
| Location | Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City |
The Trojan Women Set Fire to their Fleet is a mid-17th century painting by French artist Claude Lorrain. Done in oil on canvas, the painting is currently in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Description
Claude Lorrain painted The Trojan Women Set Fire to their Fleet around 1643 at the behest of Cardinal Girolamo Farnese.[1] The scene is Lorrain's take on a famed event in Book 5 of the Aeneid in which the exiled women of Troy, spurred on by the Greek goddess Juno, burn the Trojan fleet to force their men to stop roaming and settle in Sicily. However, Aeneas prays to the god Jupiter to save the ships from the flames by summoning a rainstorm; this is alluded to by Lorrain via his inclusion of dark clouds in the top right of the painting.[1]
References
- ^ a b "www.metmuseum.org". www.metmuseum.org. Retrieved 2018-08-14.
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