The Trojan Women Setting Fire to Their Fleet
Claude Lorrain · 1643
Why it's great
Women set fire to their own ships on a beach, to stop the long journey, as the sun sets over the sea. Claude Lorrain painted it in about 1643, and the story is from Virgil's Aeneid.
Where to see it
📍 Metropolitan Museum of ArtManhattan, United States
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Claude Lorrain was a French painter born in Chamagne in 1600. He moved to Rome as a young man and spent his life there painting glowing landscapes and harbors in golden light, which influenced painters for centuries, including Turner. He died in Rome in 1682.
