Poussin and the Dance is a valiant attempt to break into Poussin’s staunchly academic oeuvre and provide a relatable point of entry, highlighting the exciting elements of revelry and movement despite ...

French painter Nicolas Poussin is best known as a painter of classical subjects in classical styles, but an uncommonly racy early work, Vénus Épiée par Deux Satyres (Venus Spied Upon by Two Satyrs) ...

Nicolas Poussin, "A Bacchanalian Revel Before a Term" (1632-33), oil on canvas, 98 x 142.8 cm, The National Gallery, London Success! Your account was created and you’re signed in. Please visit My ...

For decades, a playful painting thought to be a facsimile of a Nicolas Poussin original sat in the storerooms of London’s National Gallery. But this week, the painting was reattributed to the French ...

This early work by Nicholas Poussin was initially rejected by experts, in part because of its racy subject matter. The eroticism and looming violence in the painting’s depiction of a nude nymph being ...

A great work by Nicolas Poussin has confounded scholars and spies alike This beautiful painting by Nicolas Poussin has for centuries bamboozled art historians, who can’t decide whether it’s showing ...

Maturity is not all it’s cracked up to be. Aging may transform ingredients like wine and beef and cheese, but any number of other foods do even better on the Peter Pan principle: I don’t want to grow ...

Artist: Once, a visitor to Rome asked Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665) where he could buy a fine antique. Poussin bent down, gathered a handful of Rome's dust and said: "Let me give you the most beautiful ...

Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Abstract versus figurative art, can the one ever equal the other? The argument has been going on for very nearly a century now. But, ...