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Nicolas Poussin's Landscape Allegories by Sheila McTighe (1996, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherCambridge University Press
ISBN-100521482143
ISBN-139780521482141
eBay Product ID (ePID)999088
Product Key Features
Book TitleNicolas Poussin's Landscape Allegories
Number of Pages228 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicIndividual Artists / General, Subjects & Themes / Landscapes & Seascapes, General
Publication Year1996
IllustratorYes
GenreArt, Literary Collections
AuthorSheila Mctighe
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight30 oz
Item Length10.3 in
Item Width7.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN95-019694
Dewey Edition20
Dewey Decimal759.4
Table Of Content1. Poussin's storm landscapes and Libertinage in the mid-seventeenth century; 2. Poussin's Landscape with Orpheus circa 1650: the politics of its reception; 3. Landscape as the site of allegory: Poussin and Roman studies of the hieroglyph; 4. Poussin's classicism or Libertinage in representation; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
SynopsisNicolas Poussin's Landscape Allegories offers new interpretations for several of the artist's most beautiful and enigmatic paintings of his late career. Examining the landscapes within the social and intellectual context of seventeenth-century libertinage, a clandestine atheist movement, Sheila McTighe also addresses the reception of these works, as ideally conceived by the artist, and by a subsequent generation of critics and biographers. This study, moreover, challenges the traditional view of Poussin's work, inherited from academic criticism and more recent scholarship, as 'classic,' a term that implies its clarity and rationality. As McTighe argues, Poussin's landscape allegories, despite their outward limpidity, are deliberately obfuscatory, their meaning ensconced in a set of signs and symbols recognisable only to an intellectual milieu that was marginal in seventeenth-century cultural life., Nicolas Poussin's Landscape Allegories offers new interpretations for several of the most beautiful and enigmatic paintings of the artist's late career. Sheila McTighe examines the landscapes within the social and intellectual context of seventeenth-century libertinage, a clandestine atheist movement, and argues that, despite their outward limpidity, Poussin's landscape allegories are deliberately obfuscatory, their meaning ensconced in a set of signs and symbols recognizable only to an intellectual milieu that was marginal in seventeenth-century cultural life., Nicolas Poussin's Landscape Allegories offers new interpretations for several of the artist's most beautiful and enigmatic paintings of his late career. Sheila McTighe argues that, despite their outward limpidity, they are in fact deliberately obfuscatory, their meaning recognisable only to an intellectual milieu.
LC Classification NumberND553.P8 M38 1996
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