"In the Light of Poussin: The Classical Landscape Tradition" Exhibition
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Landscape as an independent genre flourished in the first half of the seventeenth century when artists from all over Europe—but especially France, the Netherlands, and the duchy of Lorraine—came to work in Rome, taking antiquity and nature as their twin sources of inspiration. The concept of the classical landscape as a constructed, idealized view of the natural world became well established during this period and found near perfect expression in the work of Nicolas Poussin and his contemporaries.
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Schedule
from January 08, 2008 to April 13, 2008
Artist(s)
Nicolas Poussin et al.