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Parnassus

Artist: Nicolas Poussin (French, 1594-1665)

Date: 1630-1631

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, Spain

Description

Parnassus, the mythological mountain of Apollo and the Muses is the scene for a celebration of the Arts, especially Poetry. Apollo offers the nectar of the gods to a poet, probably Homer, who is crowned with a laurel wreath by Calliope, the muse of epic poetry. The putti in the foreground offer the poets the water of inspiration that flows from the spring of Castalia, personified by the nude woman. This work is based on a fresco by Raphael at the Vatican and may pay homage to the Italian poet, Giovanni Battista Marino (1569-1625), who was Poussin´s patron. A preparatory drawing for this work is in the G. Wildenstein collection. There is also an engraving of it, made by Jean Dughet before 1667.

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Saints Peter and John Healing the Lame Man

Artist: Nicolas Poussin (French, 1594–1665)

Date: 1655

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY, United States

Description

At the temple in Jerusalem where the old and infirm beg for alms, Peter and John cure a man who cannot walk (Acts 3:1–10): “Then Peter said, Silver and gold I do not have; but what I do have I give you: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk.” Poussin looked to High Renaissance artists for inspiration to represent this scene: Raphael used measured, pyramidal compositions built around the temple steps such as this, while Michelangelo probably prompted the gestures of the central group which relate to his Creation of Adam in the Sistine Chapel. Facial types, notably the almond-shaped eyes and straight noses, copy classical sculpture.

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Phlegm's interpretation of a character in 'The Triumph of David' by Nicholas Poussin -  Phlegm

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The Return of the Holy Family from Egypt| Nicolas Poussin (French; 1594–1665) ca. 1628–38 Oil on canvas Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, England

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The Ravishment of Saint Paul - Nicolas Poussin

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In this particular instance, for example, it was fitting to wonder what sort of a figure I should myself cut as a soldier. The question was no longer purely hypothetical, a grotesque fantasy, a romantic daydream, the career one had supposed to lie ahead as a child at Stonehurst. There was every reason to think that before long now the tenor of many persons’ lives, my own among them, would indeed be regulated by those draconic, ineluctable laws, so mildly, so all embracingly, defined in the Commission as ‘the Rules and Discipline of War’. How was it going to feel to be subject to them? My name was on the Emergency Reserve, although no one at that time knew how much, or how little, that might mean when it came to joining the army. At the back of one’s mind sounded a haunting resonance, a faint disturbing buzz, that was not far from fear

1939, The Kindly Ones by Anthony Powell

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In Search of Arcadia

In Search of Arcadia - Dr Janina Ramirez goes 'In Search of Arcadia' discovering the origins of the English landscape movement in a 12-mile stretch of the Thames. #art

Dr Janina Ramirez goes ‘In Search of Arcadia’ discovering the origins of the English landscape movement in a 12-mile stretch of the Thames between Hampton and Chiswick with waterman and historian John Bailey. In the early 18th century this stretch of the river was home to a group of writers, poets, artists and garden designers who were inspired by classical landscapes of antiquity and the ancient…

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