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conflicting tendencies: the poet and peasant

Nicolas Poussin’s work is full of conflicting tendencies. More exactly, with tendencies that ought to be conflicting and that would be anywhere but in Poussin’s painting. This many sidedness, these very contradictions, determine and explain his classicism. For classicism as … Continue reading

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