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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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Venus Presenting Arms to Aeneas (detail) af
1639
Oil on canvas
Mus??e des Beaux-Arts, Rouen
Painting ID:: 8646
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Venus_Presenting_Arms_to_Aeneas_(detail)_af
1639
Oil on canvas
Mus??e des Beaux-Arts, Rouen
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The Institution of the Eucharist af
1640
Oil on canvas, 325 x 250 cm
Mus??e du Louvre, Paris
Painting ID:: 8647
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The_Institution_of_the_Eucharist_af
1640
Oil on canvas, 325 x 250 cm
Mus??e du Louvre, Paris
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The Sacrament of Baptism af
1642
Oil on canvas, 95,3 x 121,6 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington
Painting ID:: 8648
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The_Sacrament_of_Baptism_af
1642
Oil on canvas, 95,3 x 121,6 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington
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Landscape with St Matthew and the Angel sg
c. 1645
Oil on canvas, 99 x 135 cm
Staatliche Museen, Berlin
Painting ID:: 8649
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Landscape_with_St_Matthew_and_the_Angel_sg
c. 1645
Oil on canvas, 99 x 135 cm
Staatliche Museen, Berlin
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Ideal Landscape ag
1645-50
Oil on canvas, 120 x 187 cm
Museo del Prado, Madrid
Painting ID:: 8650
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Ideal_Landscape_ag
1645-50
Oil on canvas, 120 x 187 cm
Museo del Prado, Madrid
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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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