#nicolas poussin

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Title: The Assumption of the Virgin Artist: Nicolas Poussin (French, 1594-1665) Date: ca. 1630 Genre: religious art (Roman Catholic Christianity) Movement: Classicism Period: Baroque Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: 134 cm (52.9 in) high x 98.1 cm (38.6 in) wide Location: National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA

This painting depicts a popular theme of Catholic art during the Counter-Reformation, the bodily assumption of the Virgin Mary into heaven at the end of her life (mirroring the Ascension of Christ). The fluted columns behind Mary reflect Poussin's interest in classical antiquity, which he often merged with Christian themes and subjects.

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A Dance to the Music of Time (Nicolas Poussin, 1636)

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Selene and Endymion (c. 1630) by Nicolas Poussin (French, 1594 – 1665), oil on canvas, 48 × 66 1/2 inches (121.9 × 168.9 cm), Detroit Institute of Arts

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Orpheus and Eurydice

Part 1

Landscape with Orpheus and Eurydice (c. 1650-1653), Nicolas Poussin

Orpheus and Eurydice (c. between 1650 and 1700), Federico Cervelli

Orpheus and Eurydice, (c. 1790), Jean Raoux

Orpheus and Eurydice (1806), Christian Gottlieb Kratzenstein-Stub

Orpheus and Eurydice (1820), Michel Martin Drolling

Orpheus Leading Eurydice from the Underworld (1861), Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

Orpheus and Eurydice (1862), Edward Poynter

Orpheus and Eurydice (1864), Frederic Leighton (1864)

Orpheus and Eurydice on the Banks of the Styx (1878), John Roddam Spencer Stanhope

Orpheus and Eurydice (19th century), George Frederic Watts

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Cephalus and Aurora

Artist: Nicolas Poussin (French, 1594-1665)

Date: ca. 1630

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: The National Gallery, London, United Kingdom

Description

Aurora, goddess of dawn, is in love with the mortal Cephalus and tries to seduce him. Cephalus, dressed here in blue, turns away from Aurora, rejecting her advances. He gazes towards a portrait of his wife, Procris, held by a winged cupid. Later, when Cephalus and Procris are reunited, they each doubt the fidelity of the other. Their story ends tragically when Cephalus accidentally kills his wife with a magic spear.

To the left of Aurora and Cephalus is a reclining river god, probably Oceanus, and beside him is the winged horse Pegasus. The background figure wearing a wreath of corn and holding flowers could be Terra, a goddess associated with the awakening earth. The faint outline of the sun god Apollo in his chariot can be seen in the vivid orange sky.

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Oh my goodness, the inspiration for poses in this painting is so amazing!!!

Source: The Virtual Museum Facebook Group, posted by user Aleksi Naaranoja.

The Triumph of Neptune and Amphitrite aka The Birth of Venus by Nicolas Poussin, ca1635-1636 Oil on canvas 114,4 cm x 146,6 cm Philadelphia Museum of Art, USA

This mythological or religious (depending on the viewer's religion or lack of it) scene clearly depicts Poseidon (or Neptune to the Romans), bearded and muscular, with four horses and a trident, to the left. It is not clear whether the central female figure, sitting on a shell boat, is intended to depict Venus, Poseidon's wife Amphitrite, or Galatea, hence the painting is also known by two quite different titles.

Nicolas Poussin (June 1594 Les Andelys – 19 November 1665 Rome) was a French painter who was a leading painter of the classical French Baroque style, although he spent most of his working life in Rome.

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Nicolas Poussin, Self-portrait (1650)

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Nicolas Poussin