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Nicolas Poussin (1594 - 1665)
French painter, born in 1594 in Villers near Les Andelys in Normandy. From 1612 to 1623 he lived in Paris, 1623-24 in Venice; his continued presence in Rome is documented from 1624 onwards. He soon became famous as a result of the support of Cardinal Francesco Barberini, (a nephew of Pope Urban VIII), and of his secretary, the scholar and connoisseur of antiquity, Cassiano del Pozzo, for whom Poussin painted the important cycle "The Seven Sacraments" (1636-42). Apart from a short stay in Paris from 1640 to 1642, where he worked for Louis XIII and was invited to contribute to the decorations in the Louvre, Poussin never left Rome again. He nevertheless remained in close contact with patrons and friends in Paris. He died in Rome in 1665. |
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