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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Poussin


Poussin: The Rape of the Sabine Women considered the greatest French painter of the seventeenth century. Poussin in this dramatic work (ca.1636) shows his complete devotion to the ideas of classicism. The heroic figures are superb physical specimens, but hardly life-like. (Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York [Dick Fund, 1846])

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Nicholas Poussini (1593-1655) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Poussin is generally considered the finest example of French classicist painting. Poussin spent all but eighteen months of his creative life in Rome because he found the atmosphere in Paris uncongenial. Deeply attached to classical antiquity, he believed that the highest aim of painting was to represent noble actions in a logical and orderly, but not realistic, way. His masterpiece, “The Rape of Sabine Women,” exhibits these qualities. Its subject is an incident in Roman history; the figures of people and horses are ideal representations, and the emotions expresses are studied, not spontaneous. Even the buildings are exact architectural models of ancient Roman structures. ` Page 518
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