Poussin

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• Thus, it was not ignorance that led Poussin to design a medically accurate image of plague.

  Academic text (2004)

• A similar purpose may have underlain a number of Poussin's works.

  Academic text (2004)

• Even so, it is Callot as much, if not more than Poussin, who represents the connecting link to the past.

  Academic text (2001)

• In later years, Poussin's scientific concerns found poetic expression in a number of landscapes and mythologies.

  Academic text (2004)

• In Balzac's tale, it is the young Poussin who manifests a natural talent for spontaneous compositions.

  Academic text (2000)

• Most modern viewers overlook the medicinal plants in Poussin's painting, though they are in plain sight.

  Academic text (2004)

• Similar disavowals have come down to us from such contemporaries as Guido Reni and Nicolas Poussin.

  Academic text (2015)

• Raphael and Michelangelo were contemporaries, as were Poussin and Rubens, Ingres and Delacroix, and Matisse and Picasso.

  Academic text (1992)

• Nicolas Poussin is celebrated for his classical-style compositions that shaped the art of the 17th century.

• The museum features an exhibition of paintings by Poussin, showcasing his influence on classical art.

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Nicolas Poussin

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A French painter from the 1600s known for paintings of myths and religious scenes

focuses on century and classical composition style rather than life dates

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