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 The Triumph of David a oil


The Triumph of David a
Painting ID::  8621
The Triumph of David a
1630-31 Oil on canvas, 100 x 130 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid
   
   
     

POUSSIN, Nicolas The Empire of Flora af oil


The Empire of Flora af
Painting ID::  8622
The Empire of Flora af
1631 Oil on canvas, 131 x 182 cm Gemäldegalerie, Dresden
   
   
     

POUSSIN, Nicolas The Empire of Flora (detail) afd oil


The Empire of Flora (detail) afd
Painting ID::  8623
The Empire of Flora (detail) afd
1631 Oil on canvas Gemäldegalerie, Dresden
1631 Oil_on_canvas Gemäldegalerie,_Dresden
   
   
     

POUSSIN, Nicolas The Triumph of Flora  sg oil


The Triumph of Flora sg
Painting ID::  8624
The Triumph of Flora sg
1631 Oil on canvas, 165 x 241 cm Mus??e du Louvre, Paris
1631 Oil_on_canvas,_165_x_241_cm Mus??e_du_Louvre,_Paris
   
   
     

POUSSIN, Nicolas Bacchanal before a Statue of Pan zg oil


Bacchanal before a Statue of Pan zg
Painting ID::  8625
Bacchanal before a Statue of Pan zg
1631-33 Oil on canvas, 100 x 142,5 cm National Gallery, London
   
   
     

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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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