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	Gaspard Poussin Gaspard Poussin , 1615-75, French landscape painter, b. Rome. The son of a Frenchman named Dughet, he adopted the name of his brother-in-law, Nicolas Poussin , in whose studio he worked and whose influence is visible in his interpretations of the Italian countryside. Gaspard is particularly noted... Read more
	Laurent de La Hire Laurent de La Hire , 1606-56, French painter. He produced many portraits and historical paintings, a few romantic landscapes, important decorative works for Richelieu, Pierre Séguier, and others, and tapestry designs for the Gobelins. His paintings reflect the influence of Vouet, Poussin, and... Read more
	Nicolas Poussin Nicolas Poussin , 1594-1665, French painter, b. Les Andelys. Poussin was considered the greatest of living painters by his contemporaries. Although he spent most of his life in Italy, his painting became the standard for French classical art. Poussin studied painting in the mannerist style in... Read more
	Andre Felibien Félibien, André (b Chartres, May 1619; d Paris, 11 May 1695). French administrator and writer on art. He is remembered chiefly for his Entretiens sur les vies et sur les ouvrages des plus excellens peintres anciens et modernes, first published in 1666–88, often reprinted, and... Read more
	Anthony Frederick Blunt Anthony Frederick Blunt 1907-83, English art historian and Soviet spy, grad. Cambridge. Director of the Courtauld Institute of Art after 1947 and professor of the history of art at the Univ. of London, Blunt also served from 1952 as Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures and was one of the most powerful... Read more
	Walter Friedlaender Walter Friedlaender , 1873-1966, American art historian, b. Germany. Friedlaender pursued a distinguished academic career in Germany until 1934 and afterward taught at New York Univ. His best-known works on 16th- and 17th-century art include Caravaggio Studies (1955), his edition of The Drawings... Read more
	Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes Valenciennes, Pierre-Henri de (b Toulouse, 6 Dec. 1750; d Paris, 16 Feb. 1819). French landscape painter. Between 1769 and 1785 he spent several years in Italy, and his style was influenced most notably by Nicolas Poussin. He became a leading upholder of the classical tradition in landscape... Read more
	Louis de La Vallee-Poussin ... Read more
	Jean Francois Lesueur Eustache Le Sueur , 1616-55, French painter. He was a disciple of Vouet and a founding member of the Académie royale (1648). In his short life he painted many decorative works for apartments in the Louvre and for churches and convents. His work was greatly influenced by that of Poussin, whom... Read more
	ideal landscape ideal landscape. A type of landscape painting, invented by Annibale Carracci in the first decade of the 17th century, in which natural elements are composed into a grand and highly formalized arrangement suitable as a setting for small figures from serious religious or mythological subjects. It... Read more

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	Putting flesh on Poussin's bonesIain Gale finds Sir Denis Mahon, last of the... Newspaper article from: The Independent (London, England) ...very different thesis, turning Poussin scholarship on its head: "Poussin is not a peintre-philosophe. He is a peintre-peintre. He makes use ofthe stories he...soi-disant intellectual and Poussin was a typical Frenchman. He didn...
	Poussin: the enigma exposed Newspaper article from: The Independent (London, England) ...celebrated 17th-century French artist Nicolas Poussin has been claimed as their own by art historians...artist remains an enigma. Was he the peintre philosophe suggested by Anthony Blunt...the first was in 1960) that all of Poussin's major paintings will have been seen...
	A hit in the making Newspaper article from: The Independent (London, England) ...freshness. "There is a sense in which Cezanne is, like Poussin, a peintre philosophe," says Serota. "But it is one of the...Cezanne that the RA's blockbuster last year had on Poussin. Serota seems to hope so. "The subject matter is...
	A Painter's Progress. Newspaper article from: The New York Observer (New York, NY) ...nature with Claude Lorrain. Poussin would eventually garner important...minister of the arts bestowed Poussin with the title of premier peintre du roi. Shuttling between...places. To get an idea of Poussin's importance to world of...
	Videos interactives de Luc Courchesne: la rencontre du reel et du virtuel. Magazine article from: Etc. Montreal ...traduit quelque chose comme ce desir insense, rendre visible la lumiere (4), des propos qui rejoignent ceux du peintre Nicolas Poussin, qui ecrivait dans sa lettre du 1er mars 1655 a Freart de Chambray: Il ne se donne point de visible sans la...
	EXHIBITIONS Newspaper article from: The Independent (London, England) ...beauty. National Maritime Mus, Greenwich. To 5 Mar Nicolas Poussin For over 300 years, Poussin has presented art historians with an enigma: was he a "peintre philosophe" or a "peintre peintre"? This breathtaking exhibition will allow the public...
	Balzac, Frenhofer, Le Chef-d'oeuvre inconnu: Ut Poesis Pictura. Magazine article from: Mosaic (Winnipeg) ...with the two lesser painters, Poussin and Porbus, and their inability...Porbus and the young Nicholas Poussin, into his studio to witness...montrer avec orgeuil. Jamais peintre, pinceaux, couleurs, toile...68) Yet when Porbus and Poussin finally see the painting...
	Lachine: Michele Drouin: Ut pictura poesis (exposition). Magazine article from: Etc. Montreal ...comme objet de lecture est souligne par Poussin, au moment ou il envoie d'Italie La...peinture figurative qui en a resulte? Si un peintre choisit ses couleurs comme le poete choisit...relatifs a l'enigme que restent toujours le peintre, le visible et la pensee. Au depart...
	Chasse-croise de regards: Ghislaine Charest: Tout pres. Magazine article from: Etc. Montreal ...les oeuvres sont regroupees par paires : Poussin voisine Goya (la photo est aussi divisee...Cranach fait face a Greuze; Rembrandt a Poussin, Vigee-Lebrun a Goya. Nous les regardons...des modeles, symbolisant l'oeil du peintre. On le retrouve egalement dans le choix...
	Triumph in Rome: Simon Vouet's Italian work reveals his major contribution to... Magazine article from: Apollo ...always flirted with power. Louis XIII's famous remark to Poussin in 1640 on his arrival in Paris from Rome to decorate the Long...reflects the king's growing frustration with his premier peintre's political machinations as he lorded it over the French...