1 The first part of the painting my eyes are drawn to would be the mountains in the back ground top right. to me its a very bland part of the painting at first but after you glance at it for a while it starts to show detail.

2 after glancing at the picture in all directions I found that the detail on the mountains to my eyes is done just right to make show detail at a far distance of the trees and what looks like there might be some houses just below the tree line. The one question would be to the artist is why he/she chose to do this time ere instead of another time era.

3I think that the artist is trying to show what it was like to be in that time and how much harder you have to work to get your goals.