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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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Painting ID:: 8656
Landscape with the Funeral of Phocion af
1648
Oil on canvas, 114 x 175 cm
National Museum of Wales, Cardiff (on loan)
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Painting ID:: 8657
Landscape with the Gathering of the Ashes of Phocion by his Widow af
1648
Oil on canvas, 116 x 176 cm
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
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Painting ID:: 8658
Landscape with the Gathering of the Ashes of Phocion (detail) af
1648
Oil on canvas
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
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Painting ID:: 8659
Rebecca at the Well st
c. 1648
Oil on canvas, 118 x 199 cm
Mus??e du Louvre, Paris
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Painting ID:: 8660
A Roman Road af
1648
Oil on canvas, 78 x 99 cm
Dulwich Picture Gallery, London
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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,
. Related Artists to POUSSIN, Nicolas: | Aert de Gelder | Robert Delaunary | Tommaso Minardi | Eldress Polly Jane Reed | Nathulal Gordhan |
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