French painter Nicolas Poussin is best known as a painter of classical subjects in classical styles, but an uncommonly racy early work, Vénus Épiée par Deux Satyres (Venus Spied Upon by Two Satyrs) ...

For decades, a playful painting thought to be a facsimile of a Nicolas Poussin original sat in the storerooms of London’s National Gallery. But this week, the painting was reattributed to the French ...

Nicolas Poussin, "A Bacchanalian Revel Before a Term" (1632-33), oil on canvas, 98 x 142.8 cm, The National Gallery, London Success! Your account was created and you’re signed in. Please visit My ...

The highly structured and deeply cerebral paintings of Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665) have long positioned him as the father of the French Baroque school, and of a revived classical tradition that would ...

This early work by Nicholas Poussin was initially rejected by experts, in part because of its racy subject matter. The eroticism and looming violence in the painting’s depiction of a nude nymph being ...

The National Gallery has acquired one of the greatest examples of 17th-century Dutch still-life paintings – a rare picture, one of only 14 known to exist, by a pioneering painter of richly laid tables ...

Hardly anyone dares use the term “High Art” these days—not without high irony—but it’s difficult to know how else to categorize works that present elevated and learned themes with great formal rigor ...

Nicolas Poussin, “The Plague at Ashdod” (1630), oil on canvas, 148 x 198 cm, Musée du Louvre, Paris (image via Web Gallery of Art) What can our awareness of the immediate present gain from the study ...