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 Pan and Syrinx fh oil


Pan and Syrinx fh
Painting ID::  8641 		Pan and Syrinx fh
1637-38 Oil on canvas, 106 x 82 cm Gemäldegalerie, Dresden
   
   
     
POUSSIN, Nicolas Dance to the Music of Time asfg oil


Dance to the Music of Time asfg
Painting ID::  8642 		Dance to the Music of Time asfg
c. 1638 Oil on canvas, 82,5 x 104 cm Wallace Collection, London
   
   
     
POUSSIN, Nicolas Et in Arcadia Ego af oil


Et in Arcadia Ego af
Painting ID::  8643 		Et in Arcadia Ego af
1637-39 Oil on canvas, 185 x 121 cm Mus??e du Louvre, Paris
   
   
     
POUSSIN, Nicolas Apollo and the Muses (Parnassus) af oil


Apollo and the Muses (Parnassus) af
Painting ID::  8644 		Apollo and the Muses (Parnassus) af
1630s Oil on canvas, 125 x 197 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid
1630s Oil_on_canvas,_125_x_197_cm Museo_del_Prado,_Madrid
   
   
     
POUSSIN, Nicolas Venus Presenting Arms to Aeneas f oil


Venus Presenting Arms to Aeneas f
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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     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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