Famous Italian poet, one of the first protectors and sponsors of Nicolas Poussin
Giovanni Battista Marino, known as “Le Cavalier Marin” meets Nicolas Poussin in 1623 while the artist is working in Paris for Marie de Médicis.
Impressed by his drawing talent, he orders Poussin a set of 15 drawings mostly about Ovid’s Metamorphoses, today at the Windsor Castle.
At Poussin’s arrival in Rome, he is the one who introduce the artist to Barberini, nephew of Pope Urban VIII. But shortly after he leaves Rome to Naples, where he dies the next year.