POUSSIN AS A PAINTER

Universally regarded as the father of French painting, Nicolas Poussin is arguably the greatest of all painters of that school. Yet Poussins reputation has been founded more on the intellectual and philosophical qualities of his art than its sheer visual beauty. In Poussin as a Painter: From Classicism to Abstraction Richard Verdi redresses the balance, describing and analyzing Poussins outstanding gifts as a pictorial storyteller, designer and colourist in short, on the purely aesthetic (and often abstract) aspects of his art that h...[Read more]