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...long time seemed too staid and static for modern tastes. Since World War II, museums on both sides of the Atlantic have been fighting for the few surviving works of the 17th century master Georges de La Tour. Last summer, the Louvre put on the biggest exhibit of Nicolas Poussin ever held...
Though he felt himself surrounded by his superiors, he acknowledged no master. "No one has taught me anything," he said. The classical influence of Poussin was there, but Corot could not treat a landscape as if it were a stage: he insisted on painting his landscapes on the spot. "One must go to the fields," he said. "I need real branches." As he mastered his art, each outdoor scene seemed to declare -in the curves of its shadows and the softness of its light-the very time of day that it was painted. In this, above all his contemporaries, Corot...
André Gide called him "the first of our great French painters and the most French of our great painters," but France herself has been strangely ambivalent about the 17th century master, Nicolas Poussin. Though his canvases hang in all the best museums, his works have at times been virtually ignored by gallerygoers. And though the experts have subjected Poussin to periodic "rediscoveries," he has sometimes seemed little more than a name to which the textbooks paid their perfunctory respects. This summer Poussin is enjoying his most spectacular "rediscovery" yet, in the form of the biggest one-man show...
...Louvre has scoured the world to collect 120 drawings and 120 of Poussin's 180-odd known paintings. The U.S. sent 14 canvases; others came from as far away as Australia and from such diverse repositories as Windsor Castle and Leningrad's Hermitage Museum. The Louvre cleaned many of its own 37, often revealing an intensity of color never before suspected. Yet, when the Louvre's chief curator of paintings, Germain Bazin, sat down to write his introduction to the catalogue, he still had his doubts. "Will the crowds," he asked, "show an interest in this artist...
Cost & Cure. For so French a painter, it is ironic that Normandy-born Poussin did almost all his work outside his native land. After studying anatomy in a Paris hospital, he set out for Rome, where he filled notebook after notebook with sketches of ancient ruins and nearly starved to death. Once, when the Vatican was at odds with Cardinal Richelieu, papal troops tried to beat the Frenchman up. He caught syphilis, and partly to avoid further temptation, married the daughter of the pastry cook who nursed him back to health. The disease left its mark-trembling hands and eventual...