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Scienze della comunicazione Università degli Studi di TeramoPhD Program in Historical studies
Scienze della comunicazione Università degli Studi di TeramoPhD Program in Historical studies

Nicolas Poussin

PoussinNicolas Poussin (1594-1665) was born in France, where he studied Italian painting. Probably after meeting with Giambattista Marino he decided to take a trip to Italy. After a first stay in Venice, he arrived in Rome in 1624, where he immediately entered into the artistic circle that revolved around Cardinal Francesco Barberini. He would remain in Rome until 1640. He returned to Paris and though he was triumphantly welcomed by Louis XIII and Richelieu, decided to return to Rome in 1642, where he would remain until his death. Among the leading exponents of seventeenth-century European painting, Poussin followed an ideal of art linked ??to order, logic and harmony, representing a constant model for the Classicism of the following centuries. Among his works, ranging from religious to historical and mythological theme, The Martyrdom of Saint Erasmus (1628), The Rape of the Sabine Women (1637), the Landscape with the Funeral of Phocion (1648) and the Four Seasons (1660) stand out.