It is steeped in arcana and the classical past. It is a world where passion usually takes a back seat to duty and honor. Poussin was the ultimate painter-philosopher, contemplative and unostentatious in his life and his work. A laborious and painstaking craftsman, he had none of the visceral swagger that we admire in the work of his 17th-century contemporaries, like Rubens, Bernini, Velazquez and Rembrandt. All of them are more accessible to us.
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