Guy de Compiegne, Varulv editions, 2013 Watch Guy de Compiegne presenting his book (in French) at The Tuileries Gardens bookstore, on June 5th 2014. The painting of Nicolas Poussin and the Japanese garden of Zen Buddhism have always been and are still, independently, a source of fascination. To elaborate the ideal landscape, Poussin and Zen masters use … Continue reading The Visual Path – Nicolas Poussin and the Japanese garden Masters
Yuri Zolotov et Natalia Serebriannaïa, Parkstone Aurora Editions, 1994 Paintings and drawings in Russian Museums Collections In his 1665 letter, Nicolas Poussin put forward three main thesis: firstly, painting is simply imitation; secondly it aims to bring “delight”; thirdly, the artist is endowed with a natural talent that no one can give him or deprive … Continue reading Nicolas Poussin – The master of colours
Alain Mérot, Nouvelles Éditions Scala, 2013 Camillo Massimo, Italian cardinal, friend and protector of Nicolas Poussin – but also of Claude and Velazquez -, refers to the painter’s end of life, from January to November 1665. In the context of the XVIIth century Rome, he remembers his conversations with Poussin and draws up his portrait: … Continue reading Nicolas Poussin, Friendship embracing Painting
Collective work, published by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2008 Exhibition catalogue by Pierre Rosenberg The work of the great French painter Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665) 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 … Continue reading Poussin and Nature – Arcadian visions
Collective work, published by Éditions Fonds Mercator, 2010 Work published at the time of the exhibition at the Jacquemart-André Museum in Paris from September 2010 to January 2011 This richly illustrated work presents an original view of the relationship between the Flemish Baroque painting and classic French art. In order to explain the reversal of … Continue reading From Baroque to Classicism – Rubens, Poussin and the painters of the 17th century
Louis Marin, translated by Catherine Porter – Stanford University Press, 1999 “Art history and art theory are inseparable. A history of art can be achieved only through the simultaneous construction of a theory of art.” These words of the eminent scholar and critic Louis Marin suggest why he considered the paintings and the writings of … Continue reading Sublime Poussin
Alain Mérot, published by Éditions Gallimard, 2009 How did the landscape known to this day as “classical” come into being? What was behind the rise and fall of this ideal form in Western European culture in the modern age? Initially considered minor and decorative, it gained independence and dignity through the careful study of nature, … Continue reading Landscape in painting in the modern West
Collective work – Published by Editions Faton, 2012 Work published at the time of the exhibition at Gobelins In summary: • Poussin and Moïse, an erudite and pious fascination • From the paintings to the tapestries of Poussin, changes and adaptations • Nicolas Poussin or the invention of artistic primacy
Teresa Sacchi Lodispoto Collection of the great masters of art, Le Figaro, 2008 This volume traces Poussin’s work from the years of his training in France to his triumphs in Rome and Paris, with special attention to the environments and sponsors who in turn developed deep relationships with the artist, from both a human and … Continue reading Poussin and classicism
Collection d’histoire de l’art, Académie de France à Rome (History of art collection, French Academy in Rome) – Villa Médicis – Marc Bayard, Elena Fumagalli et al. – Published by Somogy Éditions d’art, 2011 Nicolas Poussin developed an imaginary view of antiquity by gathering sources both visually (engraving, architecture, sculpture) and in literature, and his … Continue reading Poussin and the construction of antiquity
Collective work – Published by Edition des Musées Nationaux, 1960 Exhibition catalogue (by Anthony Blunt) Dear Director General, I have the honour of sending you the attached samples from the exhibition catalogue which the Painting Department is dedicating this year to one of the less popular of the grand masters, in France at least, Nicolas … Continue reading Nicolas Poussin – Louvre Museum, PARIS 1960
Jean-Louis Vieillard-Baron – Published by Hermann Éditeurs, 2010 The Arcadian Shepherds by Poussin still retains its mystery. The painting shows two enigmas: the inscription on the grave and the cloaked woman in the foreground of the scene to the right. The place is Arcadia, the home of poets. Poussin made it the home of painters, … Continue reading Et in Arcadia Ego – Poussin or the immortality of beauty
Anne-Marie Lecoq – Published by Le Passage Editions, 2003 Fénelon, Poussin and the lost childhood From 1689 to 1697, Fénelon was responsible for the education of the Duke of Bourgogne, grandson of Louis XIV, who was seemingly destined to one day sit on the throne of France. In order to give his student some basics … Continue reading The Duke of Bourgogne’s painting lesson
Jacques Thuillier – Published by Fayard, 1988 Who was Poussin? The father of academicism, an educated man who led painting astray, or the most sensitive and most inspired of artists? Was he pedantic, passionate or wise? Why place him among French painters when all the works we have, almost half a dozen, were painted in … Continue reading Nicolas Poussin
Pierre Rosenberg and Louis-Antoine Prat – Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 1994 Chantilly keeps a unique collection of paintings and drawings by Poussin, the second largest in France after the collection in the Louvre. This collection, which can only leave Chantilly with the agreement of the testator, the Duke of Aumale, was therefore displayed in situ … Continue reading Nicolas Poussin – The Collection at the Condé Museum in Chantilly
Pierre Rosenberg and Renaud TEMPERINI – Gallimard Découvertes – Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 1994 The greatest French painter of the 17th century was also one of the leading Italian painters. Such was the destiny of a man caught between two countries, France and Italy, whose compositions, religious, human and mythological tragedies, were a precursor to … Continue reading Poussin “I left nothing out”
Alain Mérot – Hazan, 1990 As a specialist in 17th century French painting, the author follows the life and work of Nicolas Poussin step by step in an illustrated work of 462 works of art, 103 of which are in colour. A list of topics, a dictionary of Poussin-esque painting and a selection of letters … Continue reading Poussin
Special edition of Connaissance des Arts – Connaissance des Arts, 1994 In 1994, when the 400th anniversary of the birth of Poussin was commemorated with a series of displays celebrating this unique painter, Connaissance des Arts magazine was involved in these tributes by releasing this exceptional work, which traces the painter’s career and analyses his … Continue reading Poussin
Stéphane Guégan, Olivier Bonfait, Dominique Brême For Jacques Thuillier – Published by Flammarion, 1994 Notes classed alphabetically allowing us to enter into Poussin’s world, detailed descriptions of his works of art and boxes developing key stylistic or theoretical ideas as well as the defining aspects of his career.
Tony Green – Paravail, 2000 In this book Tony Green transports his readers to a unique seventeenth century world where he provides original insights into Poussin’s paintings, drawings and letters, along with perspective interpretations of the figures, symbols and hieroglyphs that the artist uses in his work. The two sets of seven paintings of the … Continue reading Poussin Paints the Seven Sacraments Twice
Marc Fumaroli Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 2001 In 1657 Nicolas Poussin painted a shrine commissioned by Bishop Rospigliosi. The shrine was to give thanks to St Françoise of Rome, protector of Rome, for the end of a plague epidemic which had recently ravaged the city. Who else but Poussin could have given such dramatic tension, … Continue reading Nicolas Poussin – St Françoise of Rome
Elizabeth Cropper & Charles Dempsey – Princetown University Press, 2000 By investigating the important cultural figures who were close to the painter Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665), Elizabeth Cropper and Charles Dempsey allow the reader to enter not only the Rome where he lived but also the Rome of antiquity, which he admired and tried to reconstruct. … Continue reading Nicolas Poussin: Friendship and the Love of Painting
Collective work – A. Mérot et al. – La Documentation Française (French documentation), 1996 The symposium held at the Louvre in October 1994, recalled in these acts, provides evidence that there was, and still is, room for study, reflection and research. Both volumes include, in addition to the thirty or so lectures by experts from … Continue reading Nicolas Poussin – Acts from the symposium of October 1994 (2 volumes)
Miranda Carter – Payot, 2006 Sir Anthony Blunt (1907-1983), one of the greatest art historians of the 20th century, an inspector for the queen’s paintings and an expert on Poussin and Italian Baroque, was a spy working for Moscow. Under suspicion from the English since 1951, he discreetly confessed in 1964 in exchange for immunity. … Continue reading Gentleman spy: The double life of Anthony Blunt
David Carrier, Penn State University Press, 1992 Employing the methodologies of the new art history as well as some tools provided by poststructuralism, historiography, and analytic philosophy, Poussin’s Paintings offers a novel approach to the art of Poussin. David Carrier begins with a comprehensive analysis of Poussin’s self-portraits, which provides the starting point for a … Continue reading Poussin’s Paintings: A Study in Art-Historical Methodology
Anthony Blunt – Macula, 2000 A ubiquitous work in Anglo-Saxon countries (9 editions have been published in English); “the Blunt” is the only work that gives a complete history of French art in an easy-to-use format, from the end of the Gothic era to the death of Louis XIV. The presentation of Poussin’s work is … Continue reading Art and architecture in France, 1500-1700
Texts collected and presented by Anthony Blunt – Hermann, Collection Savoir: sur l’art series (Knowledge collection: on the art series), 1989 These letters by the greatest classical French artist, and the accompanying eye-witness accounts from his contemporaries, reassert the painter’s emotion and humanity. They follow his travels between France and Rome; tell the story of … Continue reading Nicolas Poussin – Letters and speeches on art
Anthony Blunt – Hazan Collection 35/37, 1988 This book gives us an insight into Poussin’s workshop: it must have taken patient research, rework and passion to achieve this still, blue-tinted puppet theatre. The combination of fury and austerity, composition influenced by surroundings… The book retraces all of these battles in chronological order.
Bellori, Félibien, Passeri, Sandrart – Macula, 1994 Bellori, Félibien, Passeri, Sandrart: four 20th century authors, four lives, four stories which intertwine and complement one another, told by four witnesses who knew the painter in Rome, at four different times in his life.
Oskar Bätschmann, Flammarion – Idées et Recherches series (Ideas and research series), 1994 In this original study, the author, a professor at the University of Bern, presents a series of essays on new ways of interpreting the work and ideas of Nicolas Poussin by trying to identify a dialectical approach in his working method.