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Poussin, Nicolas
1594–1665
Nationality: Kingdom of France, France
Born: 1594, Les Andelys
Died: 1665, Rome
Gender: male
Movements
Classicism
Occupations
painter
visual artist
graphic artist
architectural draftsperson
Biography
Poussin was born into a family of some local distinction in Normandy, where he probably received early training in painting. He spent most of his formative years in Paris, and he then went to Italy by at least 1624. He was a popular and influential painter who successfully subordinated dramatic narrative and the expression of extreme states of human passions to the formal harmony of designs, which were based on the beauty and precision of abstract forms. His work epitomized the contemporary search for equilibrium and synthesis between the forces of the Classical and the Baroque around which most artistic critical debate in Rome was concentrated during the 1630s. F
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Notable Works
- The Victory of Joshua over the Amorites
- The lamentation over the dead Christ
- The Four Seasons
- Seven Sacraments
- Landscape during a Thunderstorm with Pyramus and Thisbe
- The Inspiration of the Poet
- Et in Arcadia ego
