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Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665) was the greatest French artist of the 17th century, the founder of his country's classical school. With him, French painting shook off its provinciality and became a European affair, mirroring the power of its grand siecle, the age of Louis XIV. After Poussin, Rome could no longer condescend to Paris. But without Rome there would have been no Poussin: Rome formed and trained him, gave him his conception of professional life, his myths, his essential subjects, his sensuality and measure -- in short, his pictorial ethos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: A Classicist Who Burned with Inner Fire | 10/24/1988 | See Source »

...full of living art whose plasticity, color and narrative richness surpassed anything he could see in France -- Caravaggio, Pietro da Cortona, the Carracci. But Pozzo's main gift to Poussin was the intellectual background that enabled a melancholy, impetuous young Frenchman to become the chief peintre-philosophe of his age...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: A Classicist Who Burned with Inner Fire | 10/24/1988 | See Source »

BERNARD SHAW: THE SEARCH FOR LOVE by Michael Holroyd (Random House; $24.95). The first of a projected three-volume life takes its brilliant, cantankerous + subject to age 42, through journalism -- and love affairs -- to playwriting and toward his towering reputation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: Oct. 24, 1988 | 10/24/1988 | See Source »

There have always been events for both sexes as well as different age groups. This year the oldest competitor is Tom Crosby, 87, rowing in the Veteran Singles and the youngest rowers (under 20) will row in the Youth Fours and Youth Eights...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Well-Loved, Well-Attended Event | 10/22/1988 | See Source »

This year's Head will also feature a new event, the Grand Masters Singles. With the rise of more rowers in older age brackets, Jones said, organizers have created the Grand Masters for rowers aged...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: No Head-to-Head | 10/22/1988 | See Source »

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