Nicolas Poussin: The Holy Family on the Steps

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”