Pierre Rosenberg and Renaud TEMPERINI – Gallimard Découvertes – Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 1994
The greatest French painter of the 17th century was also one of the leading Italian painters. Such was the destiny of a man caught between two countries, France and Italy, whose compositions, religious, human and mythological tragedies, were a precursor to the creation of the most beautiful landscapes in painting.