Poussin as a painter : from classicism to abstraction /
Universally regarded as the father of French painting, Nicolas Poussin is arguably the greatest of all painters of that school. Yet Poussin's reputation has been founded more on the intellectual and philosophical qualities of his art than its sheer visual beauty. In Poussin as a Painter: From C...
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London :
Reaktion Books,
2020.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. The Artist's Life
- 2. An Introduction to Poussin's Art
- 3. Invention and Composition
- 4. Themes Treated Twice
- 5. Poussin's Development as a Colourist
- 6. Colour and Subject
- 7. Colour and Composition
- 8. The Theory of the Modes
- 9. Landscape to 1651
- 10. The Late Landscapes
- 11. Poussin and his Contemporaries
- 12. Poussin and Posterity.