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Fogg Museum is presenting a series of three public lectures next week in conjunction with exhibitions of the Museum class. Edward Williamson, assistant professor of Italian Literature at Johns Hopkins University, opens the series today with an illustrated lecture on "The Mask of Venice," followed by a talk on "Poussin and the Elegiac Tradition," by Erwin Panofsky, Norton Professor of Poetry...
Georges Seurat reacted from such peculiarities by being the most conservative of sons. He went to the reactionary Ecole des Beaux-Arts where he drew and painted in such traditional manners as those of Poussin, Ingres, etc. To the end of his short life, solemn, bearded Georges lived with utter circumspection, detested eccentricity of dress (the black suit and top hat best suited him) and was variously described by friends as resembling the St. George of Donatello, a young business executive, and a notary with the profile of an Assyrian king...
...Nicolas Poussin's balanced, harmonious paintings influenced David, Ingres, Corot, Cézanne, many another famed French artist...
...Painter Poussin was born near Paris in 1594, worked there until in 1624 he scraped up enough money to go to Rome. He lived and painted in Rome till he died 41 years later. Well represented in the Durlacher show are his airy, romantic landscapes, his carefully voluptuous canvases of classic myths (Venus and Adonis, The Triumph of Bacchus), his poised, devout religious paintings...
Notable is the contrast between Poussin's vigorous first sketches and the restrained composition of his finished canvases. But the vigor of the first impression usually shone through the restraint...