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POUSSIN, Nicolas
The Victorious David af
c. 1627
Oil on canvas, 100 x 130 cm
Museo del Prado, Madrid
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POUSSIN, Nicolas
The Death of Germanicus af
1627
Oil on canvas, 148 x 198 cm
Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis
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POUSSIN, Nicolas
The Martyrdom of St Erasmus sg
1628
Oil on canvas, 320 x 186 cm
Pinacoteca, Vatican
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POUSSIN, Nicolas
St Cecilia af
1627-28
Oil on canvas, 118 x 88 cm
Museo del Prado, Madrid
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POUSSIN, Nicolas
Bacchanal: the Andrians af
1628-30
Oil on canvas, 121 x 175 cm
Mus??e du Louvre, Paris
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POUSSIN, Nicolas
Lamentation over the Body of Christ af
1628-29
Oil on canvas, 101 x 145 cm
Alte Pinakothek, Munich
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POUSSIN, Nicolas
Midas and Bacchus (detail) ag
1629-30
Oil on canvas
Alte Pinakothek, Munich
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POUSSIN, Nicolas
The Plague at Ashdod asg
1630
Oil on canvas, 148 x 198 cm
Mus??e du Louvre, Paris
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POUSSIN, Nicolas
Acis and Galatea stg
c. 1630
Oil on canvas, 97 x 135 cm
National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin
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POUSSIN, Nicolas
The Inspiration of the Poet (detail) af
c. 1630
Oil on canvas
Mus??e du Louvre, Paris
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POUSSIN, Nicolas
The Triumph of David a
1630-31
Oil on canvas, 100 x 130 cm
Museo del Prado, Madrid
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POUSSIN, Nicolas
The Empire of Flora af
1631
Oil on canvas, 131 x 182 cm
Gemäldegalerie, Dresden
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POUSSIN, Nicolas
The Empire of Flora (detail) afd
1631
Oil on canvas
Gemäldegalerie, Dresden
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POUSSIN, Nicolas
The Triumph of Flora sg
1631
Oil on canvas, 165 x 241 cm
Mus??e du Louvre, Paris
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POUSSIN, Nicolas
Bacchanal before a Statue of Pan zg
1631-33
Oil on canvas, 100 x 142,5 cm
National Gallery, London
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POUSSIN, Nicolas
The Nurture of Bacchus ag
1630-35
Oil on canvas, 97 x 136 cm
Mus??e du Louvre, Paris
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POUSSIN, Nicolas
The Nurture of Bacchus (detail) af
1630-35
Oil on canvas
Mus??e du Louvre, Paris
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POUSSIN, Nicolas
Adoration of the Magi sgf
1633
Oil on canvas, 160 x 182 cm
Gemäldegalerie, Dresden
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POUSSIN, Nicolas
The Triumph of Neptune sg
1634
Oil on canvas, 114,5 x 146,6 cm
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia
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POUSSIN, Nicolas
The Triumph of Neptune (detail) af
1634
Oil on canvas
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia
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French Baroque Era Painter, 1594-1665
French painter and draughtsman, active in Italy. His supreme achievement as a painter lies in his unrivalled but hard-won capacity to subordinate dramatic narrative and the expression of extreme states of human passions to the formal harmony of designs based on the beauty and precision of abstract forms. The development of his art towards this end was focused on the search for a point of equilibrium and synthesis between the forces of the Classical and the Baroque around which most critical debate in Rome was concentrated during the 1630s. Poussin did not aspire to the classicism of Raphael's idealized human forms or Michelangelo's re-embodiment of the physical splendours of the antique world, nor did he attempt to vie with the bravura and energy of Annibale Carracci's treatment of Classical mythology in the Galleria of the Palazzo Farnese in Rome. Equally he was not concerned with the illusionistic effects and heightened emotionalism of Baroque artists such as Pietro da Cortona and Lanfranco. He was concerned above all with interpreting his subject-matter, whether Classical or religious, and telling a story with the greatest possible concentration of emotional response,
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