Nicolas Poussin, perhaps the most famous French painter of the 17th century, lived and worked for many years in Rome. Yet he remained deeply engaged with cultural and political transformations occurring in France, argues Todd P. Olson in this 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 ...
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Nicolas Poussin, perhaps the most famous French painter of the 17th century, lived and worked for many years in Rome. Yet he remained deeply engaged with cultural and political transformations occurring in France, argues Todd P. Olson in this 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 17th 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 hard-earned 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 insights seek to 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 to historical contingencies than has been previously recognized.
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Used-Very Good. 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. Very nice clean, tight copy free of any marks. Wrapped in complimentary Brodart dust jacket protector.
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Poussin, Nicolas. Fine in very good(+) jacket. Illustrated in color and black & white. 316. Wide 4to, black boards, d.w. (edge worn on spine). New Haven: Yale University Press, (2002). A fine copy in a very good(+) dust wrapper.
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VG (Boards show shelf/edgewear; DJ shows mild foxing and edgewear; pages are clean and bright; binding is solid. ) Black cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering on the spine; color illustrated DJ with white lettering; illustrated endpapers; xvii, 316 pp.; richly illustrated. "Olson discusses the paintings of Poussin, addressing their production and reception. He shows that although Poussin lived and worked for many years in Rome, he remained engaged with the cultural and political transformations occurring in France."--WorldCat.
