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Nicolas Poussin (The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts, 7)

By Anthony Blunt

Book information

Publisher
Princeton University Press
Year
2023
ISBN
0691253501, 9780691253503
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
79 MB (82946401 bytes)
Pages
776\776
Time added
2024-03-28 19:46:06

Description

A landmark account of the work, thought, and life of the seventeenth-century French painter In this book, Anthony Blunt presents a rich account of the paintings, life, and development of the great seventeenth-century French classicist Nicolas Poussin (1594–1665), addressing the artist’s entire oeuvre alongside his theory of art. Blunt shows why Poussin holds a central place in the great French humanist line that produced Racine, Molière, Voltaire, the Parnassians, and Mallarmé. At the same time, he examines how Poussin looks back to Raphael and ancient Rome, while pointing forward to Ingres, Cézanne, the Cubists, and Picasso.

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