Happy Anniversary, Nicolas Poussin!

Willibald Sauerlander writes of Nicholas Poussin, who died 350 years ago: ‘He was without doubt the dominant figure of seventeenth-century classicism, and many consider him to be the greatest French painter of all time. As an artist he is the equal of Corneille and Racine; however, his is not an art that appeals to popular taste. Everything about him is out of the ordinary. The exquisite beauty of his works remains esoteric.’ Pictured is Poussin’s “Venus Weeping for Adonis,” 1626.

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