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Nicolas Poussin [French Baroque Era Painter, 1594-1665] Links to works by Nicolas Poussin in art museum sites and image archives worldwide.

On the Arcadian Theme Copy of Nicholas Poussin's Et in Arcadia by Elsie Russell Net in Arcadia: The Virtual Museum of Contemporary Classicism Et in Arcadia is Nicolas Poussin's elegiac meditation on a Latin phrase found in Virgil's fifth eclogue that translates literally as Even in Arcady, there am I, or Death is even in Arcady, but has been interpreted in various ways through the ages. Erwin ...

Poussin in Rome: Foundations of French Classicism Erin C. Harding Rome had a tremendous impact on the seventeenth century French artist Nicolas Poussin and through him had a tremendous effect on French art in the subsequent centuries. Poussin was heavily influenced by the classical ideals of Italian art and thrived on the lifestyle in Rome that fostered this mentality. Poussin spent over half of ...

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POUSSIN, Nicolas French painter (b. 1594, Les Andelys, d. 1665, Roma) Early paintings (until 1630) Paintings between 1631-1634 Paintings between 1635-1639 Paintings between 1640-1649 Late paintings (from 1650) Please send your comments, sign our guestbook and send a postcard. Web Gallery of Art, created by Emil Kren and Daniel Marx. ...

Acquired by a private collector Ovid (Metamorphosis 3: 339-510) relates how Echo was condemned by the goddess Juno to repeat only the last words that were spoken to her. Narcissus, as a punishment for spurning Echo, was made to fall in love with his own reflection and pined away gazing at himself in a pool. In the present picture Cupid draws an arrow intended for Narcissus. Poussin painted at ...