Two hardbacks in jacket featuring Poussin
Nicolas Poussin ; June 1594 – 19 November 1665) was a French painter who was a leading painter of the classical French Baroque style, although he spent most of his working life in Rome. Most of his works were on religious and mythological subjects painted for a small group of Italian and French collectors. He returned to Paris for a brief period to serve as First Painter to the King under Louis XIII and Cardinal Richelieu, but soon returned to Rome and resumed his more traditional themes. In his later years he gave growing prominence to the landscape in his paintings. His work is characterized by clarity, logic, and order, and favors line over color.
1.) Nicolas Poussin's Landscape Allegories by Sheila McTighe
Cambridge University Press hardcover, full jacket, first edition, 1996
Clean tight copy offering new interpretations for several of the artist's most beautiful and enigmatic paintings of his late career.
2.) Poussin: The Holy Family on the Steps by Howard Hibbard
Part of the Art in Context series, which discuss a famous painting
in detail, as both image and idea, in its context- whether stylistic, technical,
literary, religious, social or political.
Pages clean, jacket has narrow chip along the front cover fold.