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One painting that electrified my mind with its iconography and made more sense than any other painting in The Palace of the Legion of Honor is the one painted by the Dutch artist Matthias Stom[er]. This mid-15th century oil on canvas The Calling of St. Matthew illustrates the scene when Jesus tells Levi, Follow me. Levi leaves his position as a tax collector, now known as Matthew, and follows Jesus to become one of the twelve disciples. In this piece he also employs few ideas of Caravaggio. It is a darkened scene; the only life-size figures that are lighted are the important figures. Stomer like Caravaggio, illustrates sacred Christian beliefs in everyday people and

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everyday life. Also, the expressions are very realistic; you can see the veins on the hands of Levi and the other tax collectors. Levi seemed sort of dumbfounded or surprised when Jesus called for him. The old man is very concentrated in weighing the coins and does it very delicately. Stomer also shows you a person facing straight at you, one who is facing sideways, and Jesus who is in a torsion position. There’s a foot below at the center facing you, the book looks as if it is barely hanging over the table. The book, the scale, and Levi are all crowding the little space where the table sits extending into the background. Again all this is caught in mid-action and it captures light, space, and time, which are universal for the period, the Baroque. The way Levi is positioned and the pressure on his left hand tells you he is about to get up and follow Jesus. The table cloth hanging over the edge of the table is perfectly centered in the middle and if you follow it to the hand of the person keeping records, then up through the scale to the delicate hand across both the heads of the old man and Levi’s, down to Levi s right pinky, up through the record keeper s left pinky up to his head, back down the record keeper s right arm and back to his hand, then an infinity figure is created. The one thing that I found interesting is that all the figures are wearing everyday clothes except Jesus and half of Levi s body. Jesus is wearing blue and red and the left half of Levi is also wearing blue and red, the other half is everyday clothes. My interpretation is that as Levi is getting up, he is leaving his everyday clothes (symbolizing his old position as a tax collector) and wearing what Jesus is wearing (becoming Jesus follower). Sort of like a transformation from the old to the new. Levi s left arm is also bent the same way as Jesus left arm symbolizing Levi becoming holy.

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Visiting and actually studying this art museum was my first experience, and it will not be my last. It makes me want to visit the museums in Europe, such as the Louvre, which I will do one day in the future. After my two visits to The Palace of the Legion of Honor in San Francisco, I finally began to understand the different periods of art and their chronological order. Even though I had to study the paintings, I enjoyed looking into the past. I will return once more, but this time I will bring my little brother and sister along with me. And at that I will say that experiencing the art was soul food for my mind.

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