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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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Painting ID:: 8626
The Nurture of Bacchus ag
1630-35
Oil on canvas, 97 x 136 cm
Mus??e du Louvre, Paris
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Painting ID:: 8627
The Nurture of Bacchus (detail) af
1630-35
Oil on canvas
Mus??e du Louvre, Paris
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Painting ID:: 8628
Adoration of the Magi sgf
1633
Oil on canvas, 160 x 182 cm
Gemäldegalerie, Dresden
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Painting ID:: 8629
The Triumph of Neptune sg
1634
Oil on canvas, 114,5 x 146,6 cm
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia
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Painting ID:: 8630
The Triumph of Neptune (detail) af
1634
Oil on canvas
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia
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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,
. Related Artists to POUSSIN, Nicolas: | Jean Baptiste Huet | Circle of Denis van Alsloot | Riis Jacob August | Master of Moulins | Pieter Soutman |
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