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Landscape with Saint John on Patmos (French: Paysage avec saint Jean à Patmos) is a 1640 neoclassical painting by Nicolas Poussin, now in the Art Institute of Chicago. [1] [2] The painting features Saint John, banished to Patmos, writing the Book of Revelation amidst a classical landscape background.
Sarasota (Florida), John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art: 214/51 Saints Peter and John healing the lame man: 1655: 126 x 165 cm: Painted for a treasurer in Lyon, Mercier. Collection of the prince of Liechtenstein from 1924. New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art: 216/84 Holy Family with saints John, Elisabeth and Joseph praying: 1655: 68 x 51 cm
Pages in category "Paintings by Nicolas Poussin" The following 38 pages are in this category, out of 38 total. ... Landscape with Saint John on Patmos;
Nicolas Poussin (UK: / ˈ p uː s æ̃ /, US: / p uː ˈ s æ̃ /, [1] [2] French: [nikɔla pusɛ̃]; June 1594 – 19 November 1665) was a French painter who was a leading painter of the classical French Baroque style, although he spent most of his working life in Rome.
The paintings passed by descent to the Earls of Ellesmere, the last of whom became the Duke of Sutherland in 1964. All seven paintings of the second series have since 1945 been on loan to the Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh as part of the Bridgewater Loan. [5] The images linked to below are of the seven paintings of the second series:
In 1671 an argument broke out in the French Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture in Paris about whether drawing or color was more important in painting. On one side stood the Poussinists (Fr. Poussinistes) who were a group of French artists, named after the painter Nicolas Poussin, who believed that drawing was the most important thing. [1]
First version, oil on canvas, 145.8 x 194 cm. The capture of Jerusalem by Titus in AD 70 is the subject of several history paintings by Nicolas Poussin.The earliest version, dated to 1626, is in the Israel Museum, catalogued as The Destruction and Sack of the Temple of Jerusalem. [1]
The painting was commissioned on February 5, 1628, by the Fabric of Saint Peter, to adorn the altar dedicated to Erasmus of Formia in St. Peter's Basilica. More precisely, it was to be located to the left of the north transept, near the Martyrdom of Saint Processus and Saint Martinian by Valentin de Boulogne (1629). [2]