Nicolas Poussin - French Painter, Classicism, Baroque: By 1632 Poussin had been elected a member of the Guild of St. Luke in Rome, a mark of official recognition that provides evidence of his growing reputation.
Nicolas Poussin (UK: / ˈ p uː s æ̃/, US: / p uː ˈ s æ̃/, [1 ] [2 ] French: [nikɔla pusɛ̃]; June 1594 – 19 November 1665) was a French painter who was a leading painter of the classical French Baroque style, although he spent most of his…
Nicolas Poussin is considered one of the Masters of painting. Very little is known about his early years, but the artist’s surviving work is a testament to his revolutionary style at a time of much artistic upheaval.
Nicolas Poussin born in 1594 near Andelys, in Normandy. His father, from a family of solicitors, served in the army of Henri de Navarre and his mother was a magistrate’s daughter.
Nicolas Poussin was born at Les Andelys in Normandy and first trained in Rouen. From 1612 he lived in Paris and in 1624 travelled via Venice to Rome, where he stayed for most of his life.His sensuous early canvases such as 'The Nurture of…