Poussin and nature : Arcadian visions /
- New Haven : Yale University Press , 2007.
- xi, 414 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 29 cm.
Catalog of an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, Feb. 12-May 11, 2008.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Encountering Poussin / The Critical Fortunes of Poussin's Landscapes / Poussin and the Roman Campagna: In Search of the Absolute / The Conquest of Space: Poussin's Early Attempts at Landscape / "Peace and Tranquillity of Mind": The Theme of Retreat and Poussin's Landscapes / From The Storm to The Flood / "Nature through the Glass of Time": A Reflection on the Meaning of Poussin's Landscapes / A Brief Biography of Nicolas Poussin / Catalogue / Poussin's Early Years in Rome -- Landscapes in a Noble and Heroic Style -- The Poetic Landscapes -- Poussin's Landscape Drawings -- The "G Group" Drawings. Pierre Rosenberg -- Keith Christiansen -- Anna Ottani Cavina -- Alain Merot -- Claire Pace -- Rene Demoris -- Willibald Sauerlander -- Keith Christiansen -- Pierre Rosenberg -- I. II. III. IV. V.
The French master Nicolas Poussin (15941665) painted some of the most influential landscapes in Western art, endowing them with a poetic quality that has been admired by artists as different as John Constable, J. M. W. Turner, and Paul Cézanne. This volume is the first in-depth examination of the landscapes in Poussins work. The artists pictorial imagination and intelligence are affirmed in 45 canvases, ranging from early Venetian-inspired pastorals to grandly structured scenes in which the artist meditated upon nature, its transformations, and its renewals. Nearly 50 of the artists drawings provide fascinating insight into Poussins thematic interests and working methods. Essays by internationally renowned scholars, including Museum curator Keith Christiansen, examine the visual, literary, and philosophical influences on Poussin as well as his relationships with his patrons and his place in the art-historical canon. Comparative paintings, drawings, and engravings by Poussin and others illuminate the essays, and a detailed catalogue of 113 of Poussins works explore questions of authorship, dating, interpretation, and execution, often righting earlier mistakes and raising new questions. This groundbreaking book gives the fullest possible representation of Poussin as a painter of landscapes, and provides a unique occasion to explore the personal side of this great artists creative achievement. -- Metropolitan Museum of Art website.
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Poussin, Nicolas, 1594?-1665 --Exhibitions.
Nature (Aesthetics)--Exhibitions. Landscapes in art--Exhibitions. Romanticism in art--Exhibitions. Classicism in art--Exhibitions.