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Traditional European landscape painting, rooted in Poussin and Claude, had always depended on parklike emblems of the Arcadian, or at least on signs of man’s dominion.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026
The ceiling painting, signed by Meynier in 1822, depicts lauded French painters Nicolas Poussin, Eustache Le Sueur, and Charles Le Brun, who appear in the clouds among angelic figures.
From BBC • Feb. 13, 2026
European paintings by Lucas Cranach the Elder, Fra Angelico, Piero della Francesca, Tintoretto, Rembrandt, Nicolas Poussin and other artists in the Western canon echo in his work, submerged within Modernist forms.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 12, 2022
But the works are also infused with the atmosphere of tenderness and religiosity in the Renaissance Italians and in Poussin.
From Washington Post • Sep. 20, 2021
They painted landscapes from the scenery round Chichester, but gave it a foreign and unnatural air by copying Claude and Poussin.
From English Painters with a chapter on American painters by Koehler, S. R.
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