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Girgenti (The Temple of Juno Lacinia at Agrigentum)

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Date

1881

Artist

William Stanley Haseltine (1835-1900)

Collection

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Image Link

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/14917

Description

In the 1870s, while living and working in Rome, Haseltine’s watercolor technique shifted away from nearly monochromatic images made in preparation for oil paintings to more fully realized watercolors made for exhibition. During one of three visits to the island of Sicily in 1881, he painted this near view of the Temple of Juno Lacinia (480–500 b.c.) in Girgenti (present-day Agrigento). At center, he emphasizes the ruin’s most eloquent feature: the single fragment of architrave supported by two intact columns at the southeast corner of the temple. Essential to his composition is the glowing afternoon Mediterranean light that illuminates the edges of the monument and casts long shadows. Medium: watercolor, gouache, and graphite on blue paper.

Image Licence

CC0 1.0

Image Credit

Image courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Arts

Location

Temple of Hera Lacinia, Agrigento, Sicily, Italy

Country

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Religious Buildings
Ruins

Category

Buildings & Architecture

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