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poussin
[Fr.] see milk chickens.
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A Brazilian art restorer has discovered a new layer hidden in a centuries-old painting of the Greek God of fertility Priapus, by French artist Nicolas Poussin -- the deity's erect penis.
Is that a French masterpiece or is it just pleased to be restored? by AFP / AFP Global Edition
JJ) Nicolas Poussin - Et in Arcadia Ego (late 1630s), Landscape with a Man Killed by Snake (1648), Self-Portrait (1650), Blind Orion Searching for the Rising Sun (1656), A Dance to the Music of Time (date unknown) Poussin was a great landscape artist, but painting views with topographical accuracy was not the point.
Artists beginning with P by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk
“Reason in the grass and tears in the sky”—this lyrical sentiment was Paul Cézanne’s self-stated ambition for his art and referred directly to the paintings of the French classicist Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665), whose landscapes are the subject of “Poussin and Nature; Arcadian Visions,” an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
A Painter’s Progress by Mario Naves / The New York Observer
 
 
 
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