Northern city

A large white cathedral with a central green dome on a tall drum, four smaller green cupolas, and a gilded cross tops a colonnaded portico set on a rise above a harbor. A white ship sails past on open water to the right, and the whole building is mirrored in the water below it.

Cool blue and grey dominate, overlaid with passages of gold and silver leaf that catch the light across sky and water. The heavily textured, scraped surface suggests weathered plaster, and the crisp, cool light gives the harbor scene a serene, quietly austere northern atmosphere.