This painting shows noblemen in a dramatic scene. Look closely and consider: How has the artist created a feeling of drama?

• What's going on in the painting?
• How are the figures and animals arranged on the paper?
• How does your eye move around the picture?
• How has the artist created a sense of movement?

If a figure (animal or human) is looking in a particular direction, we tend to follow that path with our eyes. Similarly, our eyes tend to follow the trajectory of objects that clearly point in one direction or another. How has this artist used these principles in organizing the composition (the arrangement of the parts of the picture)?