Nicolas Poussin 141 Paintings

Author : Jessica Findley
Publisher : Osmora Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 2765906300
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nicolas Poussin: 141 Paintings written by Jessica Findley and published by Osmora Incorporated. This book was released on 2014-11-21 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nicolas Poussin was the French painter of the classical Baroque style. His work is characterized by clarity, logic, and order, and favors line over color. Until the 20th century he remained a major inspiration for such classically oriented artists as Jacques-Louis David, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres and Paul Cézanne. He worked in Rome for a circle of leading collectors there and elsewhere, except for a short period when Cardinal Richelieu ordered him back to France to serve as First Painter to the King. Most of his works are history paintings of religious or mythological subjects that very often have a large landscape element. Throughout his life Poussin stood apart from the popular tendency toward the decorative in French art of his time. The finest collection of Poussin's paintings is at the Louvre in Paris. Other significant collections are in the National Gallery in London; the National Gallery of Scotland; the Dulwich Picture Gallery; the Musée Condé, Chantilly; the Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg; and the Museo del Prado, Madrid.

Author : Oskar Bätschmann
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 9780948462436
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nicolas Poussin written by Oskar Bätschmann and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 1990 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publication coincides with the 400th anniversary of the artist's birth and a forthcoming exhibition

Author : Nicolas Poussin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781095039335
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nicolas Poussin - Paintings and Drawings written by Nicolas Poussin and published by . This book was released on 2019-04-18 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The works of classical French Baroque painter Nicolas Poussin (June 1594 - November 1665).

Author : Youri Zolotov
Publisher : Parkstone International
ISBN 13 : 1639199632
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nicolas Poussin. The Master of Colours written by Youri Zolotov and published by Parkstone International. This book was released on 2022-07-31 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nicolas Poussin(1594 - 1665) was undoubtedly a highly significant master of the historical genre. He shaped its aesthetics which, regrettably, subsequently became regarded as a set of hard-and-fast rules (a trap which the Russian followers of the founder of classicism also fell into). We know that Poussin attributed prime significance to the actual choice of matter for depiction, giving preference to subjects which provided food for profound thought. Creatively reworking the aesthetic legacy of the Ancients, he introduced into the realm of painting the concept of the “modus” (mood of depiction), which established the functional unity of three components: the idea, the structure of the depiction, and its perception by the viewer. Composition assumed a predominant significance in his artistic system. In a letter of 1665, Nicolas Poussin put forward three main theses: firstly, painting is simply imitation; secondly, it aims to bring delight; Thirdly, the artist is endowed with a natural talent that no one can give him or deprive him of.

Author : Elizabeth Gilmore Holt
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691242917
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Documentary History of Art, Volume 2 written by Elizabeth Gilmore Holt and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-03-08 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The theory and practice of art underwent a number of fascinating changes between the sixteenth and the eighteenth centuries, changes which are clearly revealed in this unique collection of letters, journals, essays, and other writings by the artists and their contemporaries. In the poems of Michelangelo, the Dialogues of Carducho, or the Discourses of Sir Joshua Reynolds, one discovers the stylistic and philosophical concerns of the artist, while the record of Veronese's trial before the Holy Tribunal, the diary of Bernini's journey in France, the letters of Rubens and Poussin or biographical sketches of Rembrandt and Watteau reveal not only the personalities but also the conditions of the times. These basic and illuminating documents, now again available in paperback, provide an unparalleled opportunity for insight into the art and ideas of the periods the author discusses.

Author : David Carrier
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 9780271041674
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poussin's Paintings written by David Carrier and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Employing the methodologies of the new art history as well as some tools provided by poststructuralism, historiography, and analytic philosophy, Poussin's Paintings offers a novel approach to the art of Poussin. David Carrier begins with a comprehensive analysis of Poussin's self-portraits, which provides the starting point for a critical discussion of the traditional strategies of Poussin scholarship and for an evaluation of the status of this artist. Carrier shows that Poussin can be properly understood only by seeing how his visual and political culture differs from ours. Carrier examines the traditional approaches of Poussin scholars, noting the limitations of their views and showing how they not only shape our image of the artist but also restrict out ability to properly grasp his concerns. Carrier also considers the important conceptual claims of connoisseurs and reveals how their work invokes an implicit theory of Poussin's development. Carrier then focuses on a group of paintings concerned with erotic themes, demonstrating the inadequacy of traditional accounts of these pictures. He extends his analysis to a discussion of Poussin's landscapes, which have a different and more important place in his development than the older accounts claim. Carrier places Poussin within the artistic and political culture of seventeenth-century Rome. He asserts that artists of the time were concerned with the problem of belatedness and that Poussin attempted to return to the tradition of the High Renaissance, reworking images from that tradition in response to his own visual culture. Carrier argues that Poussin's art is thus best understood as a response to that setting for baroque art, and he relates Poussin's work to the later tradition of French history painting.

Author : Christopher Wright
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poussin written by Christopher Wright and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nicholas Poussin was the founder and the greatest practitioner of 17th century French classical painting and is widely regarded as one of the most important artists of all time

Author : Jonathan Unglaub
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521833677
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poussin and the Poetics of Painting written by Jonathan Unglaub and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-02-06 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how Poussin cultivated a poetics of painting from the literary culture of his own time, and especially through his response to the work of Torquato Tasso. Tasso's poetic discourses were the most important source for Poussin's theory of painting. Poussin does not merely illustrate Tasso's verse, but cultivates pictorial means to refashion the poet's metaphors of desire. Offering new interpretations of these works, this book also investigates Poussin's larger literary culture and how this context illuminates the artist's response to contemporary poetic texts, especially in his mythological paintings.

Author : Anthony Blunt
Publisher : London, Phaidon
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Paintings of Nicolas Poussin written by Anthony Blunt and published by London, Phaidon. This book was released on 1966 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Richard Verdi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nicolas Poussin written by Richard Verdi and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: