圣乌尔苏拉登船的海港

Claude did something painters were usually told not to do. He set the sun itself near the middle of the picture and painted everything looking straight into its light, a low morning sun laying a gold path across the harbour water while the ships wait to sail. The story is Saint Ursula, the British princess who, legend said, set off on a pilgrimage with a company of maidens, and you can find her on the steps in yellow, holding a flag with a red cross. But Claude cared most about the hour and the light. He made it in 1641 in Rome for Fausto Poli, a churchman about to be made a cardinal, and painted the Barberini family's bees onto the blue flags of the departing fleet.