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Автор: OlsonНазвание: Poussin & FranceПеревод названия: Пуссен и Франция ISBN: 9780300093384Издательство: Wiley yUPКлассификация:
ISBN-10: 0300093381
Обложка/Формат: Hardcover Страницы: 336 Вес: 1.49 кг. Дата издания: 02/04/2002 Язык: English Читательская аудитория: Professional & VocationalTertiary Education (US: C Поставляется из: Англии Описание: 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 Poussins paintings, their production and their reception.
Poussins
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 Poussins 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 painters audience considered the hard-earned pleasures of his restrained, difficult pictorial style a benchmark of integrity as well as a criticism of the Regencys 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. Olsons insights seek to reveal the importance of this painters work to a learned and powerful French constituency at a critical moment in French history and demonstrate
that Poussins famously timeless style was far more responsive to historical contingencies than has been previously recognized.
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