Poussin Nicolaus

Meleager is the son of the ruler of the Calydon kingdom in Aetolia. He grew up a brave, handsome young man and, together with the Argonauts, went to Colchis. While

In 1648, Poussin painted two paired paintings, commissioned by a wealthy merchant named Serizier. Serizier did his business in Lyon, but he also had a house in Paris. Both paintings

In the center of the picture is depicted Nereid Amphitrite, Neptune’s spouse. She sits on the bull, whose body ends with a fish tail surrounded by numerous retinues. The two

In the last years of his life, Poussin rejects the cold, rational art and returns to the roots. He writes a number of landscapes and several self-portraits, which collectors order

This picture, which played a happy role in the life of Poussin, was commissioned by his cardinal Francesca Barberini. After her, the artist’s fame rapidly grew. Many agree that “The

When Moses spent forty days and nights on Mount Sinai talking to God, the people of Israel were tired of waiting. They needed a new guide who would go ahead

Bacchus and Ariadne – a complex multi-figured canvas. Poussin presents the orgy here rather as a triumphal procession dedicated to the marriage of Bacchus and the beautiful Ariadne. Their images

In the works of Nicolas Poussin the principles of French classicism of the seventeenth century were most fully embodied. The basis of the artist’s art was the search for a

The painting “The Healing of the Blind” is written in the Gospel story. Against the background of a rather rigidly executed landscape with picturesque examples of architecture among trees, a

Narcissus is a wonderful young man whose parents were predicted that he would live to a great age. but never see his face. Narcissus grew up as a young man

Around 1635, Poussin received from his acquaintance, Cassia-no del Pozzo, an order for a series of seven paintings illustrating the seven sacraments of the church. In the Catholic Church these

The painting “Apollo and the Muses” is one of the key works for understanding Poussin’s work. Her composition borrowed from one of the frescoes of Raphael on the same topic.

Poussin was a talented and prolific draftsman. About 450 drawings made by him came to us. Of course, once they were much more. Not only the individual drawings of Poussin,

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Poussin borrowed the heroes of this picture from the poem “Metamorphoses” by the Roman poet Ovid. Polyphemus is a cyclop, a scary-looking one-eyed giant who lived in Sicily, had a

Already in his early works, Poussin often used landscape as an element of the background, but only in the 1640s did landscape become dominant in his works. In the “Landscape

Poussin’s painting presents to us three divine powers that governed in the ancient world eternal cycles of birth and death, reincarnation and resurrection, this is his mystical interpretation of pagan

“The Triumph of David” refers to the period of Poussin’s work, when he was formed as an artist of classicism and was greatly influenced by Titian. This picture is an

Poussin more than once turned to subjects related to the Holy Family. In the three paintings that you see in front of you, besides the traditional figures of the Madonna,

The ordination is one of the sacraments of the Christian church, accompanying the ordination as any priest. Here Poussin portrayed the “first ordination” in the history of Christianity. Christ tells

In the late 1620s and early 1630s, Poussin painted several paintings based on the famous epic poem “The Liberated Jerusalem”, authored by the great Torquato Tasso. First published in 1580-81,