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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:: 8636
The Rape of the Sabine Women sg
1634-35
Oil on canvas, 154,6 x 209,9 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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Painting ID:: 8637
The Rape of the Sabine Women af
1637-38
Oil on canvas, 159 x 206 cm
Mus??e du Louvre, Paris
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Painting ID:: 8638
The Triumph of Pan sg
1636
Oil on canvas, 134 x 145 cm
National Gallery, London
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Painting ID:: 8639
The Nurture of Jupiter sh
1635-37
Oil on canvas, 95 x 118 cm
Dulwich Picture Gallery, London
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Painting ID:: 8640
The Destruction of the Temple at Jerusalem afg
1637
Oil on canvas, 147 x 198,5 cm
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
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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: | Paul Hoeniger | RIBALTA, Francisco | Hans Suss von Kulmbach | CIMA da Conegliano | MASOLINO da Panicale |
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