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Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions (Metropolitan Museum of Art) | 
 enlarge | Creators: Keith Christiansen, Pierre Rosenberg
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Category: Book
List Price: $65.00
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Sales Rank: 228698
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 432
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4.6
Dimensions (in): 11.4 x 8.9 x 1.1
ISBN: 0300136684
Dewey Decimal Number: 759.4
EAN: 9780300136685
ASIN: 0300136684
Publication Date: March 3, 2008
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Condition: Hardcover. New in dust jacket.
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DIVP style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"The work of the great French painter Nicolas Poussin (1594#8211;1665) is most often associated with classically inspired settings and figures depicting solemn scenes from mythology or the Bible. Yet he also created some of the most influential landscapes in Western art, endowing them with a poetic quality that has been admired by artists as different as Constable, Turner, and Cezanne. As the British critic William Hazlitt noted in 1844, #8220;This great and learned man might be said to see nature through the glass of timeB.#8221;/B/PP style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" /PP style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"This beautiful catalogue presents the first in-depth examination of Poussin#8217;s landscapes. Featured here are more than 40 paintings, ranging from the artist#8217;s early Venetian-inspired pastorals to his grandly structured and austere works, designed as metaphors or allegories for the processes of nature. Also included are approximately 60 drawings and essays by internationally renowned scholars who examine the painter#8217;s visual, literary, and philosophical influences as well as his relationships with his patrons and his place in the art-historical canon./PP style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" /P/DIV (20080301)
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