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Anonymous 17th Century, Portrait of nicolas Poussin, date unknown, oil on canvas. © Accademia di San Luca, Rome

Nicolas Poussin

Monsù Puti, Monsù Pusini, Nicolò Pusini

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Selected Bibliography

Bätschmann, Oskar. Nicolas Poussin: Dialectics of Painting. London, 1990.

Bayard, Marc, and Elena Fumagalli, eds. Nicolas Poussin et la construction de l’antique. Paris, 2010.

Bellori, Giovan Pietro. Le vite de’ pittori, scultori e architetti moderni. 1672. Edited by Evelina Borea. Turin, 1976.

Blunt, Anthony. Nicolas Poussin. 2 vols. London, 1967, 1995.   

Blunt, Anthony. The Drawings of Poussin. New Haven, 1979.

Brigstocke, Hugh. "Poussin, Nicolas." In The Dictionary of Art, edited by Jane Turner, vol. 25, 385–397. New York, 1996.

Cropper, Elizabeth, and Charles Dempsey. Nicolas Poussin: Friendship and the Love of Painting. Princeton, 1996.

Cropper, Elizabeth. "Poussin and Leonardo's Evidence from the Zaccolini Manuscript." Art Bulletin 62 (1980): 570–583.

Dempsey, Charles. "The Classical Perception of Nature in Poussin's Earlier Works." Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 39 (1966): 219–249.   

Dempsey, Charles. "The Textual Sources of Poussin's Marine Venus in Philadelphia." Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 39 (1966): 438–442.

Félibien, André. Entretiens sur les vies et les ouvrages des plus excellens peintres anciens et modernes. Reprint, Paris, 1666–1688, 1967.

Friedlaender, Walter, and Anthony Blunt. The Drawings of Nicolas Poussin: Catalogue Raisonné. 5 vols. London, 1939–1974.

Hibbard, Howard. Poussin: The Holy Family on the Steps. New York, 1974.

Mahon, Denis. "A Plea for Poussin as a Painter." In Walter Friedlaender zum 90. Geburtstag, edited by Georg Kauffmann und Willibald Sauerländer, 113–142. Berlin, 1965.

Mahon, Denis. "Poussiniana: Afterthoughts Arising from the Exhibition." Gazette des beaux-arts 2 (1962): 1–138.

Mahon, Denis. "Poussin's Early Development: An Alternative Hypothesis." Burlington Magazine 102 (1960): 288–304.

Mérot, Alain. Nicolas Poussin, l’amitié embrassant la peinture. Paris, 2013.

Mérot, Alain. Poussin. Paris, 2011.

Oberhuber, Konrad. Poussin, The Early Years in Rome: The Origins of French Classicism. Exh. cat., Kimbell Art Museum. Fort Worth, TX, 1988.

Rosenberg, Pierre, and Keith Christiansen, eds. Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions. Exh. cat., Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 2008.

Rosenberg, Pierre, and Louis-Antoine Prat. Nicolas Poussin (1594–1665): Catalogue raisonné des dessins. 2 vols. Milan, 1994.

Rosenberg, Pierrre, and Louis-Antoine Prat. Nicolas Poussin. Exh. cat., Grand Palais. Paris, 1994–1995.

Spear, Richard. "The Literary Sources of Poussin's Realm of Flora." Burlington Magazine 108 (1965): 563–569.

Thieme, Ulrich, and Felix Becker. Gesamtregister: Register zum Allgemeinen Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart und zum Allgemeinen Lexikon der bildenden Künstler des 20. Jahrhunderts, s.v. "Poussin, Nicolas." Munich, 1996.

Thuillier, Jacques. L'opera completa di Poussin. Milan, 1974.

Thuillier, Jacques. Nicolas Poussin. Paris, 1994.

Thullier, Jacques. Poussin before Rome, 1594–1624. Exh. cat., Richard L. Feigen & Co. London, 1995.

Unglaub, Jonathan. Poussin and the Poetics of Painting: Pictorial Narrative and the Legacy of Tasso. New York, 2006.

Verdi, Richard, ed. Nicolas Poussin, 1594–1665. Exh. cat., Royal Academy. London, 1995.

Whitfield, Clovis. "Poussin's Early Landscapes." Burlington Magazine 121 (1979): 10–19.

Wild, Doris. Nicolas Poussin: Leben, Werk, Exkurse. 2 vols. Zurich, 1980.

Wright, Christopher. Poussin Paintings: A Catalogue Raisonné. New York, 1985.