Nicolas Poussin completed The Holy Family on the Steps in 1648, during a period of exceptional achievement in which his art attained a new degree of concentration and formal discipline. Having returned to Rome from Paris in 1642, he had resumed work for private patrons, free from many of the demands imposed upon him duringContinue reading “Nicolas Poussin: The Holy Family on the Steps”
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Andrea del Sarto and the French Court: Leonardo, Raphael and Visual Legacy
Before France Andrea del Sarto’s journey to France in 1518 has acquired a special place in accounts of his career. John Shearman treated that year as the beginning of Andrea’s ‘heroic period’, while Jan Sammer’s recent reconstruction of the painter’s movements has given the French episode a much firmer documentary basis than it previously possessed.Continue reading “Andrea del Sarto and the French Court: Leonardo, Raphael and Visual Legacy”
