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Who are artists that paint peaceful landscape of mountains forests and rivers?

In Italy French painters Claude Lorrain and Nicolas Poussin, 17th century. In the US 'Hudson River School', 19th century: Asher B Durand, Thomas Cole, JF Kensett, George Inness, Frederick Edwin Church, and others. Here are some painters and paintings that come to mind:Nicolas Poussin, Landscape with St. John on PatmosPuvis de Chavannes, The Sacred Grove, Beloved on the Arts and the MusesJohn Constable, The Hay WainTheodore Rousseahu, The Forest of Fontainebleau, Morning, andAlbert Bierstadt, The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak


Who are the figures in Mars and Venus by Nicholas Poussin?

If you mean the one in Boston: Mars and Venus, of course, five cupids playing with Mars's armour and to the right a river god and goddess. To the left probably a wood nymph (dryad).


What is neoclassic sculpture?

What any "neo"-classicism depends on most fundamentally is a consensus about a body of work that has achieved canonicstatus (illustration, below). These are the "classics." Ideally-and neoclassicism is essentially an art of an ideal-an artist, well schooled and comfortably familiar with the canon, does not repeat it in lifeless reproductions, but synthesizes the tradition anew in each work. This sets a high standard, clearly; but though a neoclassical artist who fails to achieve it may create works that are inane, vacuous or even mediocre, gaffes of taste and failures of craftsmanship are not commonly neoclassical failings. Novelty, improvisation, self-expression, and blinding inspiration are not neoclassical virtues. "Make it new" was the modernist credo of the poet Ezra Pound; contrarily, neoclassicism does not seek to re-create art forms from the ground up with each new project. It instead exhibits perfect control of an idiom.Speaking and thinking in English, "neoclassicism" in each art implies a particular canon of "classic" models. Virgil, Raphael, Nicolas Poussin, Haydn. Other cultures have other canons of classics, however, and a recurring strain of neoclassicism appears to be a natural expression of a culture at a certain moment in its career, a culture that is highly self-aware, that is also confident of its own high mainstream tradition, but at the same time feels the need to regain something that has slipped away: Apollonius of Rhodes is a neoclassic writer; Ming ceramics pay homage to Sung celadon porcelains; Italian 15th century humanists learn to write a "Roman" hand we call italic (based on the Carolingian); Neo-Babylonian culture is a neoclassical revival, and in Persia the "classic" religion of Zoroaster, Zoroastrianism, is revived after centuries, to "re-Persianize" a culture that had fallen away from its own classic Achaemenean past. Within the direct Western tradition, the earliest movement motivated by a neoclassical inspiration is a Roman style that was first distinguished by the German art historian Friedrich Hauser (Die Neuattische Reliefs Stuttgart 1889), who identified the style-category he called "Neo-Attic" among sculpture produced in later Hellenistic circles during the last century or so BCE and in Imperial Rome; the corpus that Hauser called "Neo-Attic" consists of bas reliefs molded on decorative vessels and plaques, employing a figural and drapery style that looked for its canon of "classic" models to late 5th and early 4th century Athens and Attica.


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What is one difference between the composition of these paintings by Caravaggio and Poussin?

Caravaggio arranges elements for a sense of movement; Poussin arranges elements for a sense of calmness.


What best describes French Baroque artist Nicolas Poussins approach to painting?

Poussin arranged natural elements to construct idealized paintings.


What is the name of the artist who painted 'Narcissus'?

Which one? There are a few paintings about Narcissus but the most known are:John William Waterhouse in 1903 painted Echo and Narcissus.There are others by Caravaggio, Dali, Poussin and Turner.Search each painter's name for the sample and see which one is the painting you are asking about.


Who is poussin?

Nicolas Poussin was a French painter known for his historical and classical themed works. He played a significant role in the development of French Baroque art during the 17th century, and his paintings often showcase themes of landscape, mythology, and religious subjects. Poussin’s works are characterized by their clarity, composition, and attention to detail.


When was Gérald Poussin born?

Gérald Poussin was born in 1946.


What has the author Nicolas Poussin written?

Nicolas Poussin has written: 'L 'opera completa di Poussin' 'Lettres de Nicolas Poussin' 'Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665)' 'Correspondance de Nicolas Poussin' -- subject(s): Correspondence, Sources, History, Art, Artists 'Nicolas Poussin' 'The flight into Egypt =' 'Many Voices, Many Cultures. Multicultural British Short Stories.' 'Nicolas Poussin, the seven sacraments' 'Les peintres de Nicolas Poussin' 'Lettres et propos sur l'art' -- subject(s): Correspondence, Art, Painters 'Poussin' -- subject(s): Exhibitions, Sacraments in art, Bacchanalia in art 'L'ABCdaire de Poussin' 'Nicolas Poussin, Claude Lorrain'


What is Nicolas Poussin's birthday?

Nicolas Poussin was born on June 15, 1594.


When was Nicolas Poussin born?

Nicolas Poussin was born on June 15, 1594.


When was Seven Sacraments - Poussin - created?

Seven Sacraments - Poussin - was created in 1640.


What is Nicolas Poussin's birthday?

Nicolas Poussin was born on June 15, 1594.


What type of competition was involved in the wager through which Louis xiv gained the Nicolas poussin paintings in the collection of armand-jean du plessis duc of richelieu?

A Tennis Match (You're welcome!)


Does Illinois have any famous paintings?

Famous paintings abound there, especially in the Art Institute of Chicago! Check out some of its most famous paintings:Edward Hopper, NighthawksNicolas Poussin, Landscape with St. John on PatmosGeorges Seurat, A Sunday on La Grande Jatte 1884Grant Wood, American Gothic.