Product Description
This collection of essays about the great seventeenth-century French artist, Nicolas Poussin, addresses issues including: the artist's practice and theory, his patronage, the reception and interpretation of his work, and his critical fortune at the hands of scholars, artists, and the art-going public. Together, the essays offer the reader not a single, uniform "Poussin" but a series of varied, sometimes contradictory, views of the artist that differ according to the historical lens through which his work is examined.
Book Description
This is a collection of essays about the great seventeenth-century French artist, Nicolas Poussin. They address issues of Poussin's practice and theory, the patronage, reception and interpretation of his work, and his critical fortune at the hands of scholars, artists, and the art-going public. Together, they offer the reader not a single, uniform 'Poussin' but a series of varied, sometimes contradictory, views of the artist differing according to the historical ens through which his work is examined.
