Nicolas poussin 1594-1665 arthur

Born in Paris April 13 1936 Pierre Rosenberg studied at the Lyc e Charlemagne in Paris gaining a Law degree and also graduated from the Ecole du Louvre In 1962 he joined the Department of Paintings at the Louvre This is where he made his career starting as an assistant later promoted curator of the heritage at the Department of Paintings In October 1994 he was appointed Chief Executive of the Louvre which had become a public institution in 1992 He left on April 13 2001 From 1981 to 1993 he was also the curator of the National Museum of Franco American Friendship Bl rancourt. Paintings by nicolas poussin After his Focillon scholarship at Yale University in 1961 1962 he was invited to stay at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton 1977 and at th Born in Paris April 13 1936 Pierre Rosenberg studied at the Lyc e Charlemagne in Paris gaining a Law degree and also graduated from the Ecole du Louvre In 1962 he joined the Department of Paintings at the Louvre This is where he made his career starting as an assistant later promoted curator of the heritage at the Department of Paintings In October 1994 he was appointed Chief Executive of the Louvre which had become a public institution in 1992 He left on April 13 2001 From 1981 to 1993 he was also the curator of the National Museum of Franco American Friendship Bl rancourt. Nicolas poussin 1594-1665 arthur After his Focillon scholarship at Yale University in 1961 1962 he was invited to stay at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton 1977 and at the University of Cambridge 1987 as Slade Professor He held the chair of French painting at the Ecole du Louvre in 1970 1971 After a period as President of the French History of Art Society from 1982 1984 he was elected President of the French History of Art Committee in 1984 Since its founding in 1969 he has been part of the editorial board of the Journal Revue de l art He has contributed to XVIIecentury Print Quarterly Artibus et Historiae Museum Management and Curatorship the Revue du Louvre and Burlington Magazine He is a foreign member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences the American Philosophical Society Philadelphia the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei the Accademia Nazionale di San Luca and the Accademia del Disegno Florence the Accademia Pietro Vanucci Perugia the Ateneo Veneto Venice the Istituto Veneto di Scienze Lettere ed Arti Venice and Accademia Clementina Bologna He is also an honorary fellow at the Royal Academy London. Tableaux de nicolas poussin His work as an art historian focussed essentially on 17th and 18th century French and Italian drawing and painting as well as on the history of collecting He has written over two hundred articles in major journals and contributed to a publication dedicated to art historians of our time. Nicolas poussin 1594-1665 history bookpedia He was elected member of the French Academy on 7 December 1995 site_link Nicolas Poussin 1594 1665 was the greatest French painter of the 17th century and one of the greatest painters of all time His understanding of the art of antiquity and of the Italian Renaissance led him to create works of such sophistication clarity and discipline that they remained the model for all classicising artists up to Cezanne and even into our own century Although Poussin s subject matter was largely religious and mythological it derived from themes and preoccupations that were intensely personal in origin At the same time Poussin s study of the countryside around Rome laid the foundations for landscape paintings of heroic grandeur and lyrical beauty This catalogue accompanies the first comprehensive exhibition of Poussin s paintings in Britain marking the 400th anniversary of the artist s birth Some ninety paintings have been assembled from public and private collections throughout the world for an exhibition of the highest scholarly importance as well as one of great popular appeal This beautifully illustrated volume encompasses much recent research on Poussin and as such will be of vital interest to art historians It also explores and clarifies an art that is fundamental to the Western classical tradition Nicolas Poussin 1594 1665