Poussin and France :painting, humanism, and the politics of style
- 作者: Olson, Todd,
- 出版: New Haven : Yale University Press c2002.
- 稽核項: xvii, 316 p. :ill. (some col.) ;29 cm.
- 標題: Poussin, Nicolas, 1594?-1665 Criticism and interpretation. , Criticism and interpretation. , Art , Poussin, Nicolas, , Fronde. , Art Political aspects -- France -- 17th century. , Political aspects
- ISBN: 0300093381 , 9780300093384
- 附註: 九十三年度教育部「輔導新設國立大學健全發展計畫」藏書. Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-306) and index.
- 系統號: 005014503
- 資料類型: 圖書
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Nicolas Poussin, perhaps the most famous French painter of the seventeenth century, lived and worked for many years in Rome. Yet he remained deeply engaged with cultural and political transformations occurring in France, argues Todd R Olson in this original exploration of Poussin's paintings, their production, and their reception. Poussin's references to ancient literature and sculpture addressed a political elite -- the Robe nobility -- whose humanist education in classical antiquity equipped them to relate Greek and Roman history to contemporary events and to deploy ancient precedents in legalistic and political arguments. When the French civil war known as the Fronde erupted in the middle of the seventeenth century, the paintings that Poussin exported to France responded directly in both subject and style to the crisis in monarchical authority and the disenfranchisement of his Robe patrons. Olson demonstrates that Poussin's association with a disgraced political group, his loss of official support, and his exile in Italy imbued his history paintings with a symbolic weight. The painter's audience considered the hardearned pleasures of his restrained, difficult pictorial style a benchmark of integrity as well as a criticism of the Regency's indiscriminate collecting practices and taste for foreign luxury. Poussin transformed the easel painting -- its making and collection -- into an expression of cultural and political commitments binding a community. Olson's fresh insights reveal the importance of this painter's work to a learned and powerful French constituency at a critical moment in French history and demonstrate that Poussin's famously timeless style was far more responsive tohistorical contingencies than has been previously recognized.
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