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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:: 8641
Pan and Syrinx fh
1637-38
Oil on canvas, 106 x 82 cm
Gemäldegalerie, Dresden
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Painting ID:: 8642
Dance to the Music of Time asfg
c. 1638
Oil on canvas, 82,5 x 104 cm
Wallace Collection, London
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Painting ID:: 8643
Et in Arcadia Ego af
1637-39
Oil on canvas, 185 x 121 cm
Mus??e du Louvre, Paris
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Painting ID:: 8644
Apollo and the Muses (Parnassus) af
1630s
Oil on canvas, 125 x 197 cm
Museo del Prado, Madrid
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Painting ID:: 8645
Venus Presenting Arms to Aeneas f
1639
Oil on canvas, 105 x 142 cm
Mus??e des Beaux-Arts, Rouen
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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: | SANCHEZ COELLO, Alonso | KEYSER, Thomas de | Giovanni Paolo Panini | Jan Gossaert Mabuse | Quentin Matsys |
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