Unit 4 Mid post

This piece is the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius. I chose this piece because has depth. It is a scene between land, sea, and humanity. The artist uses cool colors to make oranges and bright colors of the volcano look more brilliant. The artist also pays a lot of detail in the architecture and the people. The author also uses light quite brilliantly. 

This is the clothing that inspired the clothing. The people are wearing classical 1760 european clothing. This is what people would be wearing in the piece. This style of dress would have directly infleunced the piece.

This is a piece by his teacher, Joesph Vernet. This piece and the eruption of mount Vesuvius have a lot of commonalities. such as the landscape and how moonlight is portrayed. There are also commonalities in the way people are moving in the piece. The ships are also painted in the same style. 

Vesuvius entered a new phase in December 1631, when a major eruption buried many villages under lava flows, killing around 3,000 people. Torrents of boiling water were also ejected, adding to the devastation. Activity thereafter became almost continuous, with relatively severe eruptions occurring in 1660, 1682, 1694, 1698, 1707, 1737, 1760, 1767, 1779, 1794, 1822, 1834, 1839, 1850, 1855, 1861, 1868, 1872, 1906, 1926, 1929, and 1944. This would have meant that Vesuvius would have been a current event in Europe. This probably would have sparked Volaire's interests.

This is the port view of Mt. Vesuvius and this port is the inspiration of the piece. This is where he may have stood watching the volcano erupt.