The Art House

[His Wizardness]

Title: The Fire of Rome
Artist: Hubert Robert (1733-1808)
Created: *Unknown
(*: Seriously, I looked it up and no one knows when the painting was created.)
Description:
This painting for as much as I love history gives me a different reason why I like this work of art. The deep tone just encourages me to imagine the deep sounds of a roaring fire and the smoke in the air just gives me the heat that I would feel on the eve of 67 CE. If you look a little closer, you can actually see people attempting to escape to a boat on the canals of Rome.
In the background, you can see the Hubert really was emphasizing the beauty of Classical Roman architecture put once how stiff it was compared to more renaissance works. In short, the tone and the deep colors are what in my mind makes this painting so touching.