Nicolas Poussin, "A Bacchanalian Revel Before a Term" (1632-33), oil on canvas, 98 x 142.8 cm, The National Gallery, London LONDON — Try as one might, it is not easy to love the paintings of the ...
Poussin and the Dance is a valiant attempt to break into Poussin’s staunchly academic oeuvre and provide a relatable point of entry, highlighting the exciting elements of revelry and movement despite ...
The highly structured and deeply cerebral paintings of Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665) have long positioned him as the father of the French Baroque school, and of a revived classical tradition that would ...
A great work by Nicolas Poussin has confounded scholars and spies alike This beautiful painting by Nicolas Poussin has for centuries bamboozled art historians, who can’t decide whether it’s showing ...
French painter Nicolas Poussin is best known as a painter of classical subjects in classical styles, but an uncommonly racy early work, Vénus Épiée par Deux Satyres (Venus Spied Upon by Two Satyrs) ...
For decades, a playful painting thought to be a facsimile of a Nicolas Poussin original sat in the storerooms of London’s National Gallery. But this week, the painting was reattributed to the French ...
Nicolas Poussin was to painting what his 17th century contemporary Descartes was to philosophy: a believer in reason above all. An architect with canvas, he organized his scenes like luminous lessons ...
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