|
| | | Prev Artist Next Artist
|
|
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,
|
|
|
|
|
| Click Image to Enlarge |
The Rape of the Sabine Women sg
1634-35
Oil on canvas, 154,6 x 209,9 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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
|
|
|
|
| Click Image to Enlarge |
The Rape of the Sabine Women af
1637-38
Oil on canvas, 159 x 206 cm
Mus??e du Louvre, Paris
Painting ID:: 8637
|
|
|
The_Rape_of_the_Sabine_Women_af
1637-38
Oil on canvas, 159 x 206 cm
Mus??e du Louvre, Paris
|
|
|
|
| Click Image to Enlarge |
The Triumph of Pan sg
1636
Oil on canvas, 134 x 145 cm
National Gallery, London
Painting ID:: 8638
|
|
|
The_Triumph_of_Pan_sg
1636
Oil on canvas, 134 x 145 cm
National Gallery, London
|
|
|
|
| Click Image to Enlarge |
The Nurture of Jupiter sh
1635-37
Oil on canvas, 95 x 118 cm
Dulwich Picture Gallery, London
Painting ID:: 8639
|
|
|
The_Nurture_of_Jupiter_sh
1635-37
Oil on canvas, 95 x 118 cm
Dulwich Picture Gallery, London
|
|
|
|
| Click Image to Enlarge |
The Destruction of the Temple at Jerusalem afg
1637
Oil on canvas, 147 x 198,5 cm
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Painting ID:: 8640
|
|
|
The_Destruction_of_the_Temple_at_Jerusalem_afg
1637
Oil on canvas, 147 x 198,5 cm
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
|
|
|
| Prev Artist Next Artist
|
|
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,
|
|
|
ARTWORKS INDEX
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
ARTISTS INDEX A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
|
|
Wholesale China Oil Painting Wholesale Oil Painting China Xiamen Portrait Reproduction on canvas Chinese Oil Painting Wholesale
|
|
