Word: poussins
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...would have been more interesting to show Canaletto's view of Venice next to Guardi's Venice rather than placing a Tintoretto in between. And why is Vermeer's Young Woman between Claude Lorrain's turbulent Trojan Women and Poussin's Rape of the Sabine Women? For chronology or for a calm between two storms? Why not pair the Vermeer with Holbein's portrait of a German merchant? Pairing would at least make the viewer question why the two paintings were paired. Even pointing out both artists' attention to detail, would be better than just letting the viewer admire...
...exhibit which has filled three galleries for the last two months is Mrs. Eugenia Janis's Ph.D. dissertation in visual form. The Fogg's 1966 Art Nouveau exhibit was a project for Coolidge's graduate seminar in art museum problems. A grad student made a slide-tape presentation of Poussin's "Birth of Bacchus" and two are now making a movie of Rodin's "Burghers of Calais," starting from the collection of Rodin sculptures left to the Fogg by Grenville Winthrop. In 1965, a graduate student named Michael Fried wrote the introduction to the catalogue of the Fogg...
Died. Walter Friedlaender, 93, art historian and professor at N.Y.U.'s Institute of Fine Arts, who cast new light into some dark corners of European art (Caravaggio, Poussin) and identified a 16th century transitional style of exaggerated painting that he called "mannerism," thus providing a key to the change from Renaissance to the baroque; of cancer; in Manhattan...
...instances where Poussin painted a living person, for portraiture was then considered a lowly form, was his self-portrait of 1650. With an intimation of the coming romantic age, he cloaks himself in an academic gown, accouters himself with a book, and poses against pictures whose gilt edges focus attention especially on his eyes. It is clearly the portrait of the artist as rational philosopher, saying with Cartesian clarity: I perceive, therefore I paint...
...Poussin: A New Approach. 204 pages. 48 color plates. Harry N. Abrams...