Hardly anyone dares use the term “High Art” these days—not without high irony—but it’s difficult to know how else to categorize works that present elevated and learned themes with great formal rigor ...

French painter Nicolas Poussin is best known as a painter of classical subjects in classical styles, but an uncommonly racy early work, Vénus Épiée par Deux Satyres (Venus Spied Upon by Two Satyrs) ...

The highly structured and deeply cerebral paintings of Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665) have long positioned him as the father of the French Baroque school, and of a revived classical tradition that would ...

For decades, a playful painting thought to be a facsimile of a Nicolas Poussin original sat in the storerooms of London’s National Gallery. But this week, the painting was reattributed to the French ...

Nicolas Poussin, “The Adoration of the Golden Calf” (1633-1634) in the exhibition Poussin and the Dance at the National Gallery (all photos by the author) An age-old issue facing curators is how to ...

Nicolas Poussin, "A Bacchanalian Revel Before a Term" (1632-33), oil on canvas, 98 x 142.8 cm, The National Gallery, London Success! Your account was created and you’re signed in. Please visit My ...

April 29 (UPI) --A painting of a bacchanal -- long believed to be a copy of one by artist Nicolas Poussin -- has been revealed to be an original by the French painter after a recent evaluation and ...

Tracks the change in total value of sales, as well as the total number of lots offered and sold annually in the art market. This chart shows whether Nicolas Poussin’s total sales are going up, and if ...

Milton's Italian journey of 1638 brought him into contact with the same circle of syncretistic humanists and art patrons who were to influence the philosophy and iconography of the painter Nicolas ...

Our visual culture, focused on art of the immediate present, identifies three old masters as grand culture heroes: Piero della Francesca; Vermeer; and of course Caravaggio. (And now, Artemisia ...