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 Winter oil painting


Winter
1660-64 Oil on canvas, 118 x 160 cm
Painting ID::  29631
POUSSIN, Nicolas
Winter
1660-64 Oil on canvas, 118 x 160 cm
   
   
     

POUSSIN, Nicolas Theseus Finding His Father's Arms oil painting


Theseus Finding His Father's Arms
mk67 Oil on canvas 38 9/16x50 13/16in Uffizi,
Painting ID::  30043
POUSSIN, Nicolas
Theseus Finding His Father's Arms
mk67 Oil on canvas 38 9/16x50 13/16in Uffizi,
   
   
     

POUSSIN, Nicolas The Inspiration of the Epic Poet oil painting


The Inspiration of the Epic Poet
mk68 Oil on canvas Paris c.1630 France
Painting ID::  30558
POUSSIN, Nicolas
The Inspiration of the Epic Poet
mk68 Oil on canvas Paris c.1630 France
   
   
     

POUSSIN, Nicolas Landscape with Saint Matthew and the Angel oil painting


Landscape with Saint Matthew and the Angel
mk68 Oil on canvas Berlin,Staatliche Museen,Picture Gallery 1640 France
Painting ID::  30571
POUSSIN, Nicolas
Landscape with Saint Matthew and the Angel
mk68 Oil on canvas Berlin,Staatliche Museen,Picture Gallery 1640 France
   
   
     

POUSSIN, Nicolas Et in Arcadia Ego oil painting


Et in Arcadia Ego
mk68 Oil on canvas Paris,Louvre 1650 France
Painting ID::  30580
POUSSIN, Nicolas
Et in Arcadia Ego
mk68 Oil on canvas Paris,Louvre 1650 France
   
   
     

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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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