Modello for a Ceiling: Diana and the Dead Endymion, the Judgment of Paris, and the Death of Adonis
Nicolas Poussin · 1640/1642 (?) · pen and brown ink with brown wash over black chalk on laid paper
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About this picture
Modello for a Ceiling: Diana and the Dead Endymion, the Judgment of Paris, and the Death of Adonis is a public-domain drawing by Nicolas Poussin, dated 1640/1642 (?). Pen and brown ink with brown wash over black chalk on laid paper. The file comes from National Gallery of Art.
“Modello for a Ceiling: Diana and the Dead Endymion, the Judgment of Paris, and the Death of Adonis” (1640/1642 (?)) is ordered the way Poussin ordered a picture: a few figures, a clear interval between them, and a landscape that stays behind the story.
About the artist
Nicolas Poussin (1594–1665) was a French painter working in Rome. His landscapes and history pictures are built on a few clear figures and a measured space.
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