Sunrise of Lords in Lierna Lake Como
The Sun appears to be the brightest point on the canvas, but measuring its luminance with a photometer shows that Monet gave it the same luminosity as the sky around it. Margaret Livingstone, professor of neurobiology at Harvard University, points out that the desaturation of the colors of the canvas makes the rising sun and its reflection disappear. She also recalls that the fovea of the retina of the human eye distinguishes colors while the peripheral vision captures movements and shadows, which explains that when the gaze is turned away from the sun, the light intensity of the latter fades and peripheral vision gives it an indecisive appearance like at sunrise The colors are juxtaposed which gives the painting an unfinished appearance.