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,


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POUSSIN, Nicolas Landscape with the Funeral of Phocion af oil


Landscape with the Funeral of Phocion af
Painting ID::  8656
Landscape with the Funeral of Phocion af
1648 Oil on canvas, 114 x 175 cm National Museum of Wales, Cardiff (on loan)
   
   
     

POUSSIN, Nicolas Landscape with the Gathering of the Ashes of Phocion by his Widow af oil


Landscape with the Gathering of the Ashes of Phocion by his Widow af
Painting ID::  8657
Landscape with the Gathering of the Ashes of Phocion by his Widow af
1648 Oil on canvas, 116 x 176 cm Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
   
   
     

POUSSIN, Nicolas Landscape with the Gathering of the Ashes of Phocion (detail) af oil


Landscape with the Gathering of the Ashes of Phocion (detail) af
Painting ID::  8658
Landscape with the Gathering of the Ashes of Phocion (detail) af
1648 Oil on canvas Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
1648 Oil_on_canvas Walker_Art_Gallery,_Liverpool
   
   
     

POUSSIN, Nicolas Rebecca at the Well st oil


Rebecca at the Well st
Painting ID::  8659
Rebecca at the Well st
c. 1648 Oil on canvas, 118 x 199 cm Mus??e du Louvre, Paris
   
   
     

POUSSIN, Nicolas A Roman Road af oil


A Roman Road af
Painting ID::  8660
A Roman Road af
1648 Oil on canvas, 78 x 99 cm Dulwich Picture Gallery, London
   
   
     

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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,

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