Olga's Gallery
Nicolas Poussin
(1594-1665)
Biography
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Nicolas Poussin, the greatest French artist of the 17th century, is considered one of the founders of European classicism, a movement in art, based on antique and Renaissance heritage. Poussin was born in Normandy, in Les-Andelys, in 1594. The son of an impoverished family, Poussin received some early professional training at home. In 1612, Poussin left for Paris, where he entered the workshop of the mannerist painter J. Lallemald. The training was reinforced by independent study of, mainly, Italian art in the Royal Collections. By the end of the 1610s Poussin became an authoritative master, the evidence of this are his commissions for the decoration of the Luxembourg Palace in Paris, and the big altarpiece Assumption of the Virgin. Unfortunately from the works of the first Paris period (1612-23) only drawings based on Ovid’s Metamorphosis survived. Read Nicolas Poussin's Full Biography
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The Victory of Joshua over Amorites. 1624-1626. Oil on canvas. The Pushkin Museum of Fine Art, Moscow, Russia. Read Note. 
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The Battle of Joshua with Amalekites. c.1625. Oil on canvas. The Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia. Read Note.
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Renaud and Armide. c.1625-26. Oil on canvas. The Pushkin Museum of Fine Art, Moscow, Russia. Read Note.
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Acis and Galatea. 1626-1628. Oil on canvas. National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland. Read Note.
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Mars and Venus. 1626-1628. Oil on canvas. The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, USA. Read Note.
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Renaud and Armide. 1626-1628. Oil on canvas. Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, UK. Read Note.
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Parnassus. c.1626-35. Oil on canvas. Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain.
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Midas Bathing in Pactolus. 1627. Oil on canvas. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA. Read Note.
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The Shepherds of Arcadia. 1627. Oil on canvas. The Duke of Devonshire and the Chatsworth Settlement Trustees, Chatsworth, UK. Read Note.
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The Lamentation over Christ. 1627. Oil on canvas. Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany. Read Note.
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St. Cecilia. c.1627-28. Oil on canvas. Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain. Read Note.
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The Death of Germanicus. 1627-1628. Oil on canvas. The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN, USA. Read Note.
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Echo and Narcissus. c.1627-28. Oil on canvas. Louvre, Paris, France. Read Note.
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The Triumph of Flora. 1628. Oil on canvas. Louvre, Paris, France. Read Note.
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Andrians or The Great Bacchanal with Woman Playing a Lute. 1628. Oil on canvas. Louvre, Paris, France. Read Note.
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Venus Lamenting over Adonis. 1628. Oil on canvas. Musee des Beaux Arts, Caen, France. Read Note.
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The Martyrdom of St. Erasmus. 1628. Oil on canvas. Musei Vaticani, Vatican. Read Note.
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The Inspiration of the Poet. 1628. Oil on canvas. Louvre, Paris, France.
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The Virgin of the Pillar Appearing to St. James the Greater. 1628-1630. Oil on canvas. Louvre, Paris, France. Read Note.
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Helios and Phaeton with Saturn and the Four Seasons. c.1629-30. Oil on canvas. Gemaldegalerie, Berlin, Germany. Read Note.
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Tancred and Erminia. 1630s. Oil on canvas. The Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia. Read Note.
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The Triumph of David. c.1630. Oil on canvas. Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain. Read Note.
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Diana and Endymion. c.1630. Oil on canvas. The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, USA. Read Note.
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Midas and Bacchus. c.1630. Oil on canvas. Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany. Read Note.
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Descend from the Cross. c.1630. Oil on canvas. The Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia. Read Note.
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The Sleeping Venus and Cupid. c.1630. Oil on canvas. Alte Meister Gallerie, Dresden, Germany. Read Note.
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The Plague of Ashdod. 1631. Oil on canvas. Louvre, Paris, France. Read Note.
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The Garden of Flora. 1631. Oil on canvas. Gemaldegalerie, Berlin, Germany. Read Note.
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Apollo and Muses. 1631-1632. Oil on canvas. Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain. Read Note.
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Bacchanalia. 1631-1633. Oil on canvas. National Gallery, London, UK. Read Note.
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Adoration of the Shepherds. 1633. Oil on canvas. National Gallery, London, UK. Read Note.
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Theseus Finding His Father's Arms. c.1633-34. Oil on canvas. Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy. Read Note.
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Tancrede and Erminia. 1634. Oil on canvas. The Trustees of the Barber Institute of Fine Arts, The University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK. Read Note.
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The Rescue of Pyrrhus. 1634. Oil on canvas. Louvre, Paris, France.
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Queen Zenobia Found on the Banks of the Arax. 1634. Oil on canvas. The Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia.
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