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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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Self-Portrait af
1649
Oil on canvas, 78 x 65 cm
Staatliche Museen, Berlin
Painting ID:: 8661
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Self-Portrait_af
1649
Oil on canvas, 78 x 65 cm
Staatliche Museen, Berlin
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The Judgment of Solomon ag
1649
Oil on canvas, 101 x 150 cm
Mus??e du Louvre, Paris
Painting ID:: 8662
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The_Judgment_of_Solomon_ag
1649
Oil on canvas, 101 x 150 cm
Mus??e du Louvre, Paris
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Self-Portrait
1650
Oil on canvas, 78 x 94 cm
Painting ID:: 29628
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Self-Portrait
1650
Oil on canvas, 78 x 94 cm
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Strormy Landscape with Pyramus and Thisbe
1651
Oil on canvas, 192,5 x 273,5 cm
Painting ID:: 29629
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Strormy_Landscape_with_Pyramus_and_Thisbe
1651
Oil on canvas, 192,5 x 273,5 cm
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Summer (Ruth and Boaz)
1660-64
Oil on canvas, 118 x 160 cm
Painting ID:: 29630
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Summer_(Ruth_and_Boaz)
1660-64
Oil on canvas, 118 x 160 cm
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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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