Indulgence
Mar. 14th, 2023 08:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphilo I did a self indulgent thing.
Last time I was in Camilla's I saw she had The Catalogue Raisonne of Poussin's work by Christopher Wright. I nearly bought it.
Yesterday I went back and actually bought it.
And while I was tugging it out of the stacks, from under the great weight of books it had on top of it, I saw she also had the catalogue for the Royal Academy's big Poussin exhibition of 1995.
I bought that too.
By the time I've absorbed the contents of both I shall know more about Poussin than almost anybody on the planet.
Wright is oddly ambivalent about his subject. He thinks a lot of Poussin stuff is pedantic and boring. I think that if you look at anything of Poussin's long enough it will cease to be boring and start to communicate whatever it is Poussin had in mind.
Here's what Ruskin said about Poussin "It would take considerable time to enter into accurate analysis of Poussin's strong but degraded mind, and bring us no reward, because whatever he has done has been done better by Titian."
"Degraded mind"- Ouch!
And here's what Hazlitt said. "Poussin was of all painters the most poetical."
Last time I was in Camilla's I saw she had The Catalogue Raisonne of Poussin's work by Christopher Wright. I nearly bought it.
Yesterday I went back and actually bought it.
And while I was tugging it out of the stacks, from under the great weight of books it had on top of it, I saw she also had the catalogue for the Royal Academy's big Poussin exhibition of 1995.
I bought that too.
By the time I've absorbed the contents of both I shall know more about Poussin than almost anybody on the planet.
Wright is oddly ambivalent about his subject. He thinks a lot of Poussin stuff is pedantic and boring. I think that if you look at anything of Poussin's long enough it will cease to be boring and start to communicate whatever it is Poussin had in mind.
Here's what Ruskin said about Poussin "It would take considerable time to enter into accurate analysis of Poussin's strong but degraded mind, and bring us no reward, because whatever he has done has been done better by Titian."
"Degraded mind"- Ouch!
And here's what Hazlitt said. "Poussin was of all painters the most poetical."
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