Nicolas Poussin
June 1594 – 19 November 1665
Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665) was a French painter who spent most of his career in Rome and became the leading exponent of classical French Baroque painting. His rigorously ordered history paintings and mythological scenes, such as Et in Arcadia ego, made him a foundational influence on French academic art.
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Life events
Nicolas Poussin was born in June 1594 into a modest family near Les Andelys, Normandy.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgAround age eighteen, Poussin moved to Paris, where he studied with minor masters and the royal collections of prints after Raphael.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgPoussin arrived in Rome, the city where he would spend nearly all the rest of his life.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe Death of Germanicus, commissioned by Cardinal Barberini, established Poussin's reputation in Rome.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgAfter being nursed through a serious illness by the family of Jacques Dughet, Poussin married their daughter Anne-Marie.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgPoussin painted his most famous meditation on mortality, now in the Louvre.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgSummoned by the French crown, Poussin served as First Painter in Ordinary but found the court commissions uncongenial.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgPoussin left Paris and returned to Rome, where he worked for a circle of discerning French and Italian collectors for the rest of his life.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgIn his last years Poussin completed the Four Seasons landscape cycle for the Duc de Richelieu.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgPoussin died in Rome and was buried in the church of San Lorenzo in Lucina.
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