Category: Poussin

Nicolas Poussin is a 17th century French painter, considered the leader of classicism. He created many landscapes inspired by nature and antiquity, including the famous Landscape with Orpheus and Eurydice, housed in the Louvre Museum. The subject of the painting The painting depicts an episode from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, a collection of mythological poems. It tells […]

The rape of the Sabine women is the subject of two paintings by the French painter Nicolas Poussin, made between 1634 and 1638. They depict a mythological scene taken from the work of Plutarch and Livy, which tells how the Romans seized the Sabine women to take them as wives. These works are considered as […]