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Poussin and the Poetics of Painting: Pictorial Narrative and the Legacy of Tasso
Poussin and the Poetics of Painting Pictorial Narrative and the Legacy of Tasso
Author: Jonathan Unglaub
Torquato Tasso's poetic discourses were the most important source for Poussin's theory of painting. The poet's ideas on artistic imitation, novelty, and plot structure and unity, which are exemplified in his epic La Gerusalemme liberata, proved to be fundamental to the artist's conception of narrative painting, culminating in the Israelites Gath...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780521833677
ISBN-10: 0521833671
Publication Date: 2/6/2006
Pages: 298
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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