According to Pierre Rosenberg, director of the Louvre and one of the foremost Poussin experts, Nicolas Poussin was the first painter to go beyond mere landscape painting to measure up against nature itself. Throughout his career, he transformed his vision, drawing on increasingly subtle and vibrant lyricism. His teachings became a model, and that ‘sense of nature’ was then passed on to generations of artists, from Gaspard Dughet to Joseph [...]
According to Pierre Rosenberg, director of the Louvre and one of the foremost Poussin experts, Nicolas Poussin was the first painter to go beyond mere landscape painting to measure up against nature itself. Throughout his career, he transformed his vision, drawing on increasingly subtle and vibrant lyricism. His teachings became a model, and that ‘sense of nature’ was then passed on to generations of artists, from Gaspard Dughet to Joseph [...]
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