Poussin and the Poetics of Painting: Pictorial Narrative and the Legacy of Tasso

by Jonathan Unglaub

Book Overview

This examines how Poussin cultivated a poetics of painting from the literary culture of his own time, and especially through his response to the work of Torquato Tasso. Tasso's poetic discourses were the most important source for Poussin's theory of painting. The poet's ideas on artistic imitation, novelty, and plot structure and unity, which are exemplified in his epic La Gerusalemme liberata, proved to be fundamental to the artist's conception of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521833671
• ISBN13: 9780521833677
• Release Date: February 2006
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 2.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.3" x 10.1"