Abstract
Comprehensive annotated bibliography on the life , works , art theory, and legacy of Nicolas Poussin. These are the headings and subheadings: Introduction; General Overviews: Monographs and Catalogues raisonnés; Museum Collection Catalogues; Monographic and Thematic Exhibition Catalogues; Drawings; Thematic Monographs; Essay Collections; Early Biographies, Letters, and Primary Sources (Excluding Académie royale Conférences); Modern Biographical Studies; Studies on Individual Works: Youth in France; First Roman Period 1624–1640: Mythological Works; Paintings of Flora; First Roman Period 1624–1640: Paintings of History and Religious Works; Plague at Ashdod; Israelites Gathering Manna; First Roman Period 1624–1640: Poetic and Allegorical Subjects; Bacchanals for Richelieu; The Two Series of Seven Sacraments; Paris 1640–1642: Works as Royal Painter; Self-Portraits; Second Roman Period 1642–1665: History and the Bible; Second Roman Period 1642–1665: Holy Family and Devotional Works; Heroic/Philosophical Landscapes; Pyramus and Thisbe and Landscape with a Man Killed by a Snake; Late Mythological Landscapes and the Seasons; Poussin’s “Studio”: Apprentice, Collaborators, Entourage; The Study of Antiquity and Intellectual Context; Patrons and Patronage: Roman Patronage: Cassiano dal Pozzo; Roman Patronage: The Barberini and Italian Prelates; French Patronage: Amateurs Paul Fréart de Chantelou, Jean Pointel, and Others; French Patronage: Royal and Ministerial Patrons; Art Theory: “Osservazioni sopra la pittura” and Letter to Chambray; The Theory of the Modes; Leonardo da Vinci’s Trattato della Pittura; “Ut pictura poesis” and Pictorial Narrative; Modern Theoretical and Methodological Studies; Roman Social, Artistic, and Critical Context; Bellori and Other Theorists; French Artistic Context and Reception; The Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture, Conférences, and Later 17th-Century French Criticism; Later 17th-Century French Criticism; Artistic Legacy and Later Critical Reception; Poussin and Modern Art