Nicolas Poussin: Friendship and the Love of Painting

by Charles Dempsey and Elizabeth Cropper

Book Overview

By investigating the important cultural figures who were close to the painter Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665), Elizabeth Cropper and Charles Dempsey allow the reader to enter not only the Rome where he lived but also the Rome of antiquity, which he admired and tried to reconstruct. The authors argue that Poussin's works were structured by his friendships, as well as by his study of ancient history and early Christian archaeology, his exploration of the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691050678
• ISBN13: 9780691050676
• Release Date: March 2000
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 412 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.0" x 10.0"