Nicolas Poussin, peintre classique du 17e siècle

Nicolas Poussin

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 Italy?