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Painting ID::  63817
The Nurture of Bacchus
1630-35 Oil on canvas, 97 x 136 cm Mus?e du Louvre, Paris This painting is also called The Childhood of Bacchus or The Small Bacchanal.Artist:POUSSIN, Nicolas Title: The Nurture of Bacchus Painted in 1601-1650 , French - - painting : mythological

POUSSIN, Nicolas The Nurture of Bacchus oil painting reproduction


   
 

 

 
   
      

POUSSIN, Nicolas
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,
The Nurture of Bacchus
1630-35 Oil on canvas, 97 x 136 cm Mus?e du Louvre, Paris This painting is also called The Childhood of Bacchus or The Small Bacchanal.Artist:POUSSIN, Nicolas Title: The Nurture of Bacchus Painted in 1601-1650 , French - - painting : mythological

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