The Adoration of the Golden Calf
was done between 1633 and 1634.
It is an
oil on canvas
and the style used is that of
The scene can be said to be in the morning hours,
the sun is seen
from behind
The mountains,
the light
is early red but strong
enough to cast a reflection on the calf and
illuminating
Aaron and falling onto the
right side of the paint.
The Adoration of the Golden Calf
picture is diagonal and the two main scenes on the
right and the left
sides are situated perfectly within the base triangles
formed by the diagonals and the base of the paint.
The background is the far landscape and
The sky.
The vertical middle ground of the paint is the
rightmost bright
part of the
Altar on which
The
Golden Calf stands.
The left side
of the
Paint is the Dancing figures
and to the right
are other figures gesticulating towards the Calf.
Much of the scene, especially the Calf are situated
above the middle-upper
line so that the viewer's eye looks at the scene from
below the Calf.
The Light
in
The Paint
comes from the left upper side of the paint.
From the center, the lights grow naturally darker in lower tones and the white color almost entirely vanishes.
Nicolas's
interest in Art
was influenced by a minor itinerant
painter working in a church.
Other influences are
Raphael, Domenichino, Guido Reni and Titian.
Poussin influenced
artists
such as Eugene Delacroix and Jean Hugo.
Other works related to Nicolas include
landscape with a man
killed by snake
and landscape with a man
scooping water from a stream.