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 The Rape of the Sabine Women sg oil


The Rape of the Sabine Women sg
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
   
   
     
POUSSIN, Nicolas The Rape of the Sabine Women af oil


The Rape of the Sabine Women af
Painting ID::  8637 		The Rape of the Sabine Women af
1637-38 Oil on canvas, 159 x 206 cm Mus??e du Louvre, Paris
   
   
     
POUSSIN, Nicolas The Triumph of Pan sg oil


The Triumph of Pan sg
Painting ID::  8638 		The Triumph of Pan sg
1636 Oil on canvas, 134 x 145 cm National Gallery, London
1636 Oil_on_canvas,_134_x_145_cm National_Gallery,_London
   
   
     
POUSSIN, Nicolas The Nurture of Jupiter sh oil


The Nurture of Jupiter sh
Painting ID::  8639 		The Nurture of Jupiter sh
1635-37 Oil on canvas, 95 x 118 cm Dulwich Picture Gallery, London
   
   
     
POUSSIN, Nicolas The Destruction of the Temple at Jerusalem afg oil


The Destruction of the Temple at Jerusalem afg
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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     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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