Tag: FrenchAcademy
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Abduction of the Sabine Women
The Abduction of the Sabine Women (c1633) Nicolas Poussin. This painting is considered foundational for the French Classical style (I like to call French Baroque to keep it simple). Poussin spent most of his career in Rome and was in love with antiquity, that is, that ancient world of Greece and Rome, their statues, columns…
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Allegory of Music
Allegory of Music (1649) Laurent de La Hyre. La Hyre was a highly influential Parisian artist and one of the founding members of the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture, a state sponsored academy that had full control over that was deemed “Good Art” from the Mid-17th century until the early 19th century. This is…