14x36 inches, pastel on pumiced rag board.
The idea of this painting stayed with me. Each time I saw the study and the colors of that twilight moment I knew it was special. It was also a diaphanous image in my mind. What I saw was a transparent covering over reality. The objects were there to paint but they needed the shroud of light to capture the spirit of the place itself. The history of how ancient peoples had stood and been amazed even as I was made the project more important to me. 
For this painting to be here for five hundred years is important to me. Pastels last longer than oils without being repaired. 
No work of art no matter how good will not last if successive generations do not think it worthy. The ideas about painting impressions and the use of new synthetic colors available to Monet, Pissarro, and Renoir resulted in the greatest revolution of ideas for artists since the codification of linear perspective.
When I was learning these principles from my teacher whose teacher learned from William Merritt Chase, art was still dominated by Modern Art theorists. Since the late nineties there has been a resurgence of Impressionism. Plein air painting is popular and color theory that depicts light over objects will become a part of the culture we pass to the next generation.