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Poussin Nicolas
Nicolas Poussin
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Nicolas Poussin Born: June 15, 1594 near Les Andelys in Normandy. Died: November 19, 1665 in Rome, Italy. Movement: Classicism/Baroque Interesting Facts: Poussin ran away to Paris at the age of eighteen and studied painting under minor masters. At 30, he lived with painter Simon Vouet in Rome. He was given the title of First Painter in Ordinary by Louis XIII. The most common themes in Poussin's paintings are tragedy and death The Landscape was always an important element in his paintings. Notable Works: Et in Arcadia ego, Martyrdom of St. Erasmus, Massacre of the Innocents, Seven Sacraments, Ruth and Boaz. Poussin art book contains 70+ Reproductions of religious, mythical and portrait subjects with title and date.
Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
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The work of the great French painter Nicolas Poussin (1594–1665) is most often associated with classically inspired settings and figures depicting solemn scenes from mythology or the Bible. Yet he also created some of the most influential landscapes in Western art, endowing them with a poetic quality that has been admired by artists as different as Constable, Turner, and Cézanne. As the British critic William Hazlitt noted in 1844, “This great and learned man might be said to see nature through the glass of time.” This beautiful catalogue presents the first in-depth examination of Poussin’s landscapes. Featured here are more than 40 paintings, ranging from the artist’s early Venetian-inspired pastorals to his grandly structured and austere works, designed as metaphors or allegories for the processes of nature. Also included are approximately 60 drawings and essays by internationally renowned scholars who examine the painter’s visual, literary, and philosophical influences as well as his relationships with his patrons and his place in the art-historical canon. (20080301)
Nicolas Poussin: I Primi Anni Romani (Italian Edition)
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This richly illustrated study of Nicolas Poussin, a great master of the 17th century, accompanies the jointly held exhibition at Grand Palais, Paris (27 September to 2 January 1995), and The Royal Academy, London (19 January to 9 April 1995). The authors present a detailed visual study of 30 paintings, complemented by thematic analysis and including a full chronology, a general bibliography, a complete listing of the museums and collections which contain Poussin's work, and a choice or critical writings ranging from the painter's contemporaries through to the present day. This work is intended both as an exhibition guide and as an independent volume.
Sublime Poussin (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics)
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"Art history and art theory are inseparable. A history of art can be achieved only through the simultaneous construction of a theory of art." These words of the eminent scholar and critic Louis Marin suggest why he considered the paintings and the writings of Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665), painter and theoretician of painting, an enduring source of inspiration. Poussin was the artist to whom Marin returned most faithfully over the years. Since Marin did not live to write his proposed book on Poussin, the ten major essays in this volume will remain his definitive statement on the painter who inspired his most eloquent and probing commentary.
At the center of Marins inquiry into Poussins art are the theory and practice of "reading" paintings. Rather than explicate Poussins work through systematic textual and iconographic analysis, he sets out to explore a cluster of speculative questions about the meaning of pictorial art: Can painting be a discourse? If so, how can that discourse be deciphered? Marins horizon for interpreting Poussin depends more on the concepts of aesthetic philosophy and the insights of cultural history than on an account of the painters career or his relationship with his artistic predecessors. For example, he positions several of Poussins best-known landscapes with respect both to French seventeenth-century debates on the question of the sublime and to the philosophical tradition of reflection on the sublime.
Among the topics Marin studies are the tempest as a major figure of the sublime in Poussins work, the presence of ruins in the paintings, Poussins use of the concept of metamorphosis, and the frequent presence of sleeping bodies in the work. The Poussin who emerges in these essays is preeminently a philosopher-artist whose painterly discourse embodies the limits of thought and of representation.
Dance to the Music of Time by Nicholas Poussin
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This analysis of "A Dance to the Music of Time" contains information on the meaning of the painting, the evolution of its composition, its visual sources and its critical content. There is also an examination of the nature of Giulio Rospigliosi's patronage and Poussin's importance in the eyes of British art collectors. The painting has often been taken as a statement of Poussin's own philosophy, but this text argues that his contribution was rather that of a painter, giving pictorial expression to the poetic and philosophical ideas of his patron.
Nicolas Poussin
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By investigating the important cultural figures who were close to the painter Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665), Elizabeth Cropper and Charles Dempsey allow the reader to enter not only the Rome where he lived but also the Rome of antiquity, which he admired and tried to reconstruct. The authors argue that Poussin's works were structured by his friendships, as well as by his study of ancient history and early Christian archaeology, his exploration of the poetry and mystery of ancient places, and his conception of his paintings as gifts rather than commercial objects. By looking into this rich background, they also show how Poussin introduced into his theory and practice of painting a new concept of the inherent expressiveness of form that was quite different from the then prevailing conventions for depicting the passions and affections. The first two chapters treat Vincenzo Giustiniani, the most sophisticated patron and art collector of his day, whose purpose and rationale for collecting ancient sculpture deeply influenced Poussin and the Flemish sculptor Francois Duquesnoy. Among other topics, the succeeding sections take up Poussin's deep readings of Montaigne and his friendships with the poet Giovanni Battista Marino, with artists such as Pietro Testa and Matteo Zaccolini, and with patrons and true friends, among them Cassiano dal Pozzo and Paul Fréart de Chantelou, for whom Poussin painted a special self-portrait, which the artist said stood for "The Love of Painting and Friendship."
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Tate's Turner exhibition will show how he laboured to outdo Old ... - Telegraph.co.uk
Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - May 07, 2009
guardian.co.ukTate's Turner exhibition will show how he laboured to outdo Old Among the paintings to be shown together will be Turner's The Deluge (1805-13), which he painted as a response to Nicolas Poussin's Winter – The Deluge. Turner painted his version, which is full of energy, sweeping vistas and dramatic clouds, Turner to Take On the Masters at Tate In pictures: Turner and the Masters How Turner tried to re-master the Old Masters
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Keep trains out of the picture – for Cézanne - Scotland on Sunday
Scotland on Sunday, UK - May 22, 5479
Keep trains out of the picture – for CézanneNostalgia always shaped Cézanne's art, which was radically modern for the period but harked back to old masters such as Nicolas Poussin and Claude Lorrain by turning scenes outside his door into elegies of bygone splendour.
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Five Valleys gardeners bag top awards at Malvern show - Stroud News and Journal
Stroud News and Journal, UK - May 20, 2009
Five Valleys gardeners bag top awards at Malvern showMeanwhile, Paul Hervey-Brookes from Box Court Plants and Gardens – based at Rococo Garden in Painswick, picked up the show's Bronze Medal and People award for his design based on the classical 'Il Ballo Della Vita Humana' painting by Nicolas Poussin.
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County gardeners scoop top prizes - thisisgloucestershire.co.uk
thisisgloucestershire.co.uk, UK - May 07, 2009
County gardeners scoop top prizesHis garden, A Dance to the Music of Time, was based on a painting by Nicolas Poussin and featured traditional herbaceous planting in box-edged beds and a realistic woodland area. It won only bronze, which initially disappointed him.
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Basket-ball : une coupe d'Artois sur deux - La Voix du Nord
La Voix du Nord, France - May 24, 2009
Basket-ball : une coupe d'Artois sur deuxLes cadettes et les poussins, dirigés par Bernard Naskret ont pris ce jeudi la direction de Saint-Nicolas-les-Arras pour disputer la finale de la coupe d'Artois dans leur catégorie respective. Face à Liévin, les poussins n'ont pas réussi à déjouer les
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