The Louvre Museum, Richelieu wing, 2d floor, room 14 Oil on canvas, 159 x 206 cm The subject, taken from Plutarch’s life of Romulus, illustrates the moment when the Romans seize the Sabine women in order to take them for their wives. Details of the painting: A previous version of this composition, The … Continue reading The Abduction of the Sabine Women – painted for Cardinal Luigi Omodei (1637-1638)
Collective work, published by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2008 Exhibition catalogue by Pierre Rosenberg The work of the great French painter Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665) is most often associated with classically inspired settings and figures depicting solemn scenes from mythology or the Bible. Yet he also created some of the most influential landscapes … Continue reading Poussin and Nature – Arcadian visions