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Winter Painting ID:: 29631
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POUSSIN, Nicolas Winter 1660-64
Oil on canvas, 118 x 160 cm
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Theseus Finding His Father's Arms Painting ID:: 30043
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POUSSIN, Nicolas Theseus Finding His Father's Arms mk67
Oil on canvas
38 9/16x50 13/16in
Uffizi,
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The Inspiration of the Epic Poet Painting ID:: 30558
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POUSSIN, Nicolas The Inspiration of the Epic Poet mk68
Oil on canvas
Paris
c.1630
France
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Landscape with Saint Matthew and the Angel Painting ID:: 30571
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POUSSIN, Nicolas Landscape with Saint Matthew and the Angel mk68
Oil on canvas
Berlin,Staatliche Museen,Picture Gallery
1640
France
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Et in Arcadia Ego Painting ID:: 30580
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POUSSIN, Nicolas Et in Arcadia Ego mk68
Oil on canvas
Paris,Louvre
1650
France
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POUSSIN, Nicolas
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French Baroque Era Painter, 1594-1665
French painter and draughtsman, active in Italy. His supreme achievement as a painter lies in his unrivalled but hard-won capacity to subordinate dramatic narrative and the expression of extreme states of human passions to the formal harmony of designs based on the beauty and precision of abstract forms. The development of his art towards this end was focused on the search for a point of equilibrium and synthesis between the forces of the Classical and the Baroque around which most critical debate in Rome was concentrated during the 1630s. Poussin did not aspire to the classicism of Raphael's idealized human forms or Michelangelo's re-embodiment of the physical splendours of the antique world, nor did he attempt to vie with the bravura and energy of Annibale Carracci's treatment of Classical mythology in the Galleria of the Palazzo Farnese in Rome. Equally he was not concerned with the illusionistic effects and heightened emotionalism of Baroque artists such as Pietro da Cortona and Lanfranco. He was concerned above all with interpreting his subject-matter, whether Classical or religious, and telling a story with the greatest possible concentration of emotional response, |
Related Artists::. | BERLINGHIERI, Bonaventura | Nicolas de Largilliee | Carl Philipp Fohr | |
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