Nicolas Poussin

Et in Arcadia Ego — French classical painting

The founder of French classical painting and Rubens's philosophical opposite — where Rubens overwhelmed, Poussin ordered. His landscapes and mythological scenes achieve a moral gravity and geometric clarity that made him the patron saint of the Academie and of Cezanne.

Key works

• Et in Arcadia Ego~1638— Death present even in paradise
  Louvre, Paris
• The Four Seasons1660-1664— Landscape as theological meditation — his last works
  Louvre, Paris

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