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 Triumph of Neptune and Amphitrite oil


Triumph of Neptune and Amphitrite
Painting ID::  33558 		Triumph of Neptune and Amphitrite
mk86 1634 Oil on canvas 114.5x146.6cm Philadelphia,Philadelphia Museum of Art
   
   
     
POUSSIN, Nicolas Tanecred and Erminia oil


Tanecred and Erminia
Painting ID::  41052 		Tanecred and Erminia
mk159 c.1631-33 Oil on canvas 98x147cm
mk159 c.1631-33 Oil_on_canvas 98x147cm
   
   
     
POUSSIN, Nicolas Echo and Narcissus oil


Echo and Narcissus
Painting ID::  51220 		Echo and Narcissus
1628-30 Oil on canvas, 74 x 100 cm
1628-30_ Oil_on_canvas,_ 74_x_100_cm
   
   
     
POUSSIN, Nicolas The Assumption of the Virgin oil


The Assumption of the Virgin
Painting ID::  51235 		The Assumption of the Virgin
1650 Oil on canvas, 57 x 40 cm
1650_ Oil_on_canvas,_ 57_x_40_cm
   
   
     
POUSSIN, Nicolas The Nurture of Bacchus oil


The Nurture of Bacchus
Painting ID::  63817 		The Nurture of Bacchus
1630-35 Oil on canvas, 97 x 136 cm Mus?e du Louvre, Paris This painting is also called The Childhood of Bacchus or The Small Bacchanal.Artist:POUSSIN, Nicolas Title: The Nurture of Bacchus Painted in 1601-1650 , French - - painting : mythological
   
   
     
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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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