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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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Lamentation over the Body of Christ af
1628-29
Oil on canvas, 101 x 145 cm
Alte Pinakothek, Munich
Painting ID:: 8614
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Lamentation_over_the_Body_of_Christ_af
1628-29
Oil on canvas, 101 x 145 cm
Alte Pinakothek, Munich
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Midas and Bacchus (detail) ag
1629-30
Oil on canvas
Alte Pinakothek, Munich
Painting ID:: 8616
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Midas_and_Bacchus_(detail)_ag
1629-30
Oil on canvas
Alte Pinakothek, Munich
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The Plague at Ashdod asg
1630
Oil on canvas, 148 x 198 cm
Mus??e du Louvre, Paris
Painting ID:: 8617
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The_Plague_at_Ashdod_asg
1630
Oil on canvas, 148 x 198 cm
Mus??e du Louvre, Paris
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Acis and Galatea stg
c. 1630
Oil on canvas, 97 x 135 cm
National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin
Painting ID:: 8618
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Acis_and_Galatea_stg
c. 1630
Oil on canvas, 97 x 135 cm
National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin
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The Inspiration of the Poet (detail) af
c. 1630
Oil on canvas
Mus??e du Louvre, Paris
Painting ID:: 8619
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The_Inspiration_of_the_Poet_(detail)_af
c. 1630
Oil on canvas
Mus??e du Louvre, Paris
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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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