Poussin and nature : arcadian visions /
"The work of the great French painter Nicolas Poussin (15941665) is most often associated with classically inspired settings and figures depicting solemn scenes from mythology or the Bible. Yet he also created some of the most influential landscapes in Western art, endowing them with a poetic q...
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New York : New Haven [Conn.] :
Metropolitan Museum of Art ; Yale University Press,
©2008.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Series: | Metropolitan Museum of Art publications.
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| Summary: | "The work of the great French painter Nicolas Poussin (15941665) is most often associated with classically inspired settings and figures depicting solemn scenes from mythology or the Bible. Yet he also created some of the most influential landscapes in Western art, endowing them with a poetic quality that has been admired by artists as different as Constable, Turner, and Ce;zanne. As the British critic William Hazlitt noted in 1844, 'This great and learned man might be said to see nature through the glass of time'. This beautiful catalogue presents the first in-depth examination of Poussin's landscapes. Featured here are more than 40 paintings, ranging from the artist's early Venetian-inspired pastorals to his grandly structured and austere works, designed as metaphors or allegories for the processes of nature. Also included are approximately 60 drawings and essays by internationally renowned scholars who examine the painter's visual, literary, and philosophical influences as well as his relationships with his patrons and his place in the art-historical canon."--Publisher description. |
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| Item Description: | Catalog of an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, Feb. 12-May 11, 2008. |
| Physical Description: | xvii, 414 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 373-391) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9781588392428 1588392422 9781588392435 1588392430 9780300136685 0300136684 |