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Follow the procession leading an ox across the foreground, then look up to the round temple on the summit of the hill.
Claude painted this view of ancient Delphi in 1673 for Cardinal Carlo Camillo Massimi, a learned collector in Rome, together with a companion picture, Coast View with Perseus and the Origin of Coral. He restored the ruined city as he imagined it in its prime and filled the scene with calm, glowing Mediterranean light. Claude also recorded the composition in his Liber Veritatis, the book of drawings in which he kept a record of his paintings.
Oil on canvas · 101.6 × 127 cm · Art Institute of Chicago · Realism · Baroque
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- Museum title
- View of Delphi with a Procession
- Artist
- Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée; French, 1600-1682)
- Date
- 1673
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 101.6 × 127 cm (40 × 50 in.); Framed: 128 × 154.4 × 9.9 cm (50 3/8 × 60 3/4 × 3 7/8 in.)
- Credit line
- Robert A. Waller Memorial Fund
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.