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, "A Bacchanalian Revel Before a Term" (1632-33), oil on canvas, 98 x 142.8 cm, The National Gallery, London Success! Your account was created and you’re signed in. Please visit My ...
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 ...
Nicolas Poussin, “The Adoration of the Golden Calf” (1633-1634) in the exhibition Poussin and the Dance at the National Gallery (all photos by the author) Already a member? Sign in here. We rely on ...
40 x 49 cm. (15.7 x 19.3 in.) The subject of this ambitious composition is well known. Taken from the Life of Theseus by Plutarch (Lives of Illustrious Men), it centres upon the young Theseus, son of ...
On analyse deux tableaux fameux de Poussin – Paysage avec un homme tué par un serpent (National Gallery) et Apollon amoureux de Daphné (Louvre) – avant de confronter Poussin au Caravage. La thèse ...
Our visual culture, focused on art of the immediate present, identifies three old masters as grand culture heroes: Piero della Francesca; Vermeer; and of course Caravaggio. (And now, Artemisia ...
April 29 (UPI) --A painting of a bacchanal -- long believed to be a copy of one by artist Nicolas Poussin -- has been revealed to be an original by the French painter after a recent evaluation and ...
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