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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:: 8631
The Triumph of Neptune (detail) af
1634
Oil on canvas
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia
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Painting ID:: 8632
The Triumph of Neptune (detail) af
1634
Oil on canvas
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia
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Painting ID:: 8633
The Triumph of Neptune (detail) DF
1634
Oil on canvas
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia
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Painting ID:: 8634
The Adoration of the Golden Calf g
c. 1634
Oil on canvas, Iaid down on board, 154 x 214 cm
National Gallery, London
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Painting ID:: 8635
Helios and Phaeton with Saturn and the Four Seasons sf
c. 1635
Oil on canvas, 122 x 153 cm
Staatliche Museen, Berlin
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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: | Lambert, George | Werner van den Valckert | David Luders | Louis Tocque | James Barry |
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