poussin
Noun
Meaning
French painter in the classical style (1594-1665)
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Everybody's going crazy over the Impressionists; what art needs is a Poussin made over according to nature. There you have it in a nutshell.
It was in the age of absolute monarchy launched by Louix XIV in the 17th century that the likes of Poussin and Le Brun put France in the forefront of European art.
Sophia and the windows at Chartres, Mexican sculpture, a Persian bowl, Chinese carpets, Giotto's frescoes at Padua, and the masterpieces of Poussin, Piero della Francesca, and Cezanne?
In an earlier painting by Poussin from 1630 (now housed at the Dublin National Gallery ) the couple are among several embracing figures in the foreground, shielded from view of Polyphemus, who is playing his flute higher up the slope.