Poussin And Nature

Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Classicism in art
ISBN : 9781588392435

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Poussin and Nature by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) Pdf

"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.

Author : Pierre Rosenberg,Keith Christiansen,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art New York
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Classicism in art
ISBN : 1588392422

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Poussin and Nature by Pierre Rosenberg,Keith Christiansen,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) Pdf

The French master Nicolas Poussin (15941665) painted some of the most influential landscapes in Western art, endowing them with a poetic quality that has been admired by artists as different as John Constable, J. M. W. Turner, and Paul Cezanne. This volume is the first in-depth examination of the landscapes in Poussins work. The artists pictorial imagination and intelligence are affirmed in 45 canvases, ranging from early Venetian-inspired pastorals to grandly structured scenes in which the artist meditated upon nature, its transformations, and its renewals. Nearly 50 of the artists drawings provide fascinating insight into Poussins thematic interests and working methods. Essays by internationally renowned scholars, including Museum curator Keith Christiansen, examine the visual, literary, and philosophical influences on Poussin as well as his relationships with his patrons and his place in the art-historical canon. Comparative paintings, drawings, and engravings by Poussin and others illuminate the essays, and a detailed catalogue of 113 of Poussins works explore questions of authorship, dating, interpretation, and execution, often righting earlier mistakes and raising new questions. This groundbreaking book gives the fullest possible representation of Poussin as a painter of landscapes, and provides a unique occasion to explore the personal side of this great artists creative achievement. -- Metropolitan Museum of Art website.

Author : Keith Christiansen,René Démoris,Alain Mérot,Anna Ottani Cavina,Claire Pace,Pierre Rosenberg,Willibald Sauerländer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Landscapes in art
ISBN : OCLC:901159506

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Poussin and Nature by Keith Christiansen,René Démoris,Alain Mérot,Anna Ottani Cavina,Claire Pace,Pierre Rosenberg,Willibald Sauerländer Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 200?
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:429605984

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Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions by Anonim Pdf

Author : David Carrier
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0271041676

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Poussin's Paintings by David Carrier Pdf

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 : Youri Zolotov
Publisher : Parkstone International
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781639199631

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Nicolas Poussin. The Master of Colours by Youri Zolotov Pdf

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 : T. J. Clark,Timothy J. Clark
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0300117264

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The Sight of Death by T. J. Clark,Timothy J. Clark Pdf

Why do we keep returning to certain pictures? What is it we are looking for? How does our understanding of an image change over time? This investigates the nature of visual complexity, the capacity of certain images to sustain repeated attention, and how pictures respond and resist their viewers' wishes.

Author : Louis Marin,Nicolas Poussin
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Art
ISBN : 0804734771

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Sublime Poussin by Louis Marin,Nicolas Poussin Pdf

The eminent scholar and critic Louis Marin considered the paintings and the writings of Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665) an enduring source of inspiration, and he returned to Poussin again and again over the years. The ten major essays in this volume constitute his definitive statement on the painter who inspired his most eloquent and probing commentary. 17 illustrations.

Author : Anthony Blunt
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 776 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-17
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780691253510

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Nicolas Poussin by Anthony Blunt Pdf

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.

Author : Pierre Rosenberg
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10-17
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780691252919

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From Drawing to Painting by Pierre Rosenberg Pdf

Unique perspectives from an acclaimed art historian on the relationship between drawing and painting From Drawing to Painting interweaves biographical information about five renowned French artists—Nicolas Poussin, Antoine Watteau, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Jacques-Louis David, and Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres—with a fascinating look at dozens of their drawings and the links that they have to their paintings. This book explores drawing as a site of reflection, the space between the idea of a painted image and its realization on canvas. How, why, and for whom did these artists draw? What value did they place on their drawings? How did their drawings get handed down to us? In what way do they enable us better to understand the artists’ intentions, their creative processes, and to penetrate their worlds? Pierre Rosenberg determines that each artist approached drawing in a distinctive way, reflecting his individual training, work habits, and personal ambitions. For example, Poussin viewed his drawings simply as working documents, Watteau preferred his drawings to his paintings, and Fragonard made a lucrative business selling his graphic work. For David and Ingres, drawing had a considerable pedagogical function, whether in copying the great works of their predecessors or in sharpening their own techniques. From Drawing to Painting Offers an unprecedented view of the artistic process, and makes an important and beautiful addition to any art library. Please note: All images in this ebook are presented in black and white and have been reduced in size.

Author : Christine Ekelhart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3777427993

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Von Poussin bis David by Christine Ekelhart Pdf

Author : Oskar Bätschmann
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Art
ISBN : 0948462434

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Nicolas Poussin by Oskar Bätschmann Pdf

Publication coincides with the 400th anniversary of the artist's birth and a forthcoming exhibition

Author : Roger Scruton
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780691169286

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The Soul of the World by Roger Scruton Pdf

"In The Soul of the World, renowned philosopher Roger Scruton defends the experience of the sacred against today's fashionable forms of atheism. He argues that our personal relationships, moral intuitions, and aesthetic judgments hint at a transcendent dimension that cannot be understood through the lens of science alone."--Jacket.

Author : Richard Verdi,National Gallery of Scotland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015019433468

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Cézanne and Poussin by Richard Verdi,National Gallery of Scotland Pdf

Author : Chris Murray,Elizabeth Rogers,Jeffrey W. Smith
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781443816472

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The Golden Age by Chris Murray,Elizabeth Rogers,Jeffrey W. Smith Pdf

This volume investigates the diverse applications and conceptions of the term ‘The Golden Age’. The phrase resonates with the theme of nostalgia, which is popularly understood as a wistful longing for the past, but which also denotes homesickness and the unrecoverability of the past. While the term ‘Golden Age’ typically conjures up idealised visions of the past and gestures forward to utopian visions of future golden ages, the idea of nostalgia is suggestive of a discontented present. The Golden Age and nostalgia are therefore related ideas, but are also partly in conflict with one another, as many nostalgic sentiments are not idealised, and may indeed be dark, ironic or self-aware. There are, of course, many other ways to characterise the relationship between the Golden Age and nostalgia, and the tension between the two can produce myths and romantic idylls, or, in religious terms, images of pre-lapsarian innocence, or dogmas relating to values associated with childhood. The Golden Age is also often used to refer to specific, respected periods of cultural production in all kinds of literature and visual media. Indeed, nearly every period, genre, nation, and cultural form has some kind of mythic, often illusory, Golden Age against which it is defined, and in which nostalgia often plays a part. This collection interrogates the notion of the Golden Age and its connection to feelings of nostalgia from a range of interdisciplinary perspectives, with a strong focus on the relationship between word and image. It will interest scholars working on the subject of the Golden Age/nostalgia, particularly in English literature, film studies, comics studies, history, and the fine arts.