Poussin's

Or the code can be brutally direct, as it is in Poussin's Rape of the Sabine Women, whereby the artist constructs a theater of heterosexual rape with a pictorial homosocial subtext--filling the intervals between male figures with the commutable spoils of swords, horses, and--yes--women, signifying an apparent hetero-male structure of commodity overlaid an otherwise evocative, but implicit, homoerotic voyeurism and phenomonology.

G. Roger Denson: XX Chromosocial: Women Artists Cross The Homosocial Divide G. Roger Denson 2011

Or the code can be brutally direct, as it is in Poussin's Rape of the Sabine Women, whereby the artist constructs a theater of heterosexual rape with a pictorial homosocial subtext--filling the intervals between male figures with the commutable spoils of swords, horses, and--yes--women, signifying an apparent hetero-male structure of commodity overlaid an otherwise evocative, but implicit, homoerotic voyeurism and phenomonology.

G. Roger Denson: XX Chromosocial: Women Artists Cross The Homosocial Divide G. Roger Denson 2011

Lagging behind: Sales have dragged lately for small Dutch portraits, and last December, Christie's also failed to find a buyer for 17th- century French painter Poussin's "Ordination," priced to sell for at least $23.4 million.

The Art Market Snaps Back Kelly Crow 2011

Poussin's The Adoration of the Golden Calf after it was sprayed with red paint.

Man held after Poussin painting is vandalised at National Gallery 2011

It would be worth seeing for the inclusion of Poussin's Sacraments alone, his series exploring the meaning of the Christian sacraments from Baptism to Penance, considered a zenith of western art.

This week's new exhibitions 2011

He was a contemporary, and knew the work, of Claude Lorrain and Nicolas Poussin, but he lacks the gentle softness of the former and the impeccable coloring of the latter, although his mythological scenes often replicate Poussin's neoclassical geometry.

Return to the Grim and Dark Willard Spiegelman 2011

It's paired with Poussin's "Arcadian Shepherds," from 1628, which depicts shepherds in an idealized landscape as they examine a sarcophagus with a Latin inscription that translates as "I too in Arcadia"—often taken to mean that even in this idyllic place death is present.

Twombly's Surprising Hero Stephen Wallis 2011

It would be worth seeing for the inclusion of Poussin's Sacraments alone, his series exploring the meaning of the Christian sacraments from Baptism to Penance, considered a zenith of western art.

This week's new exhibitions 2011

No less charged are Poussin's "The Nurture of Jupiter" (c. 1636-37), in which a nymph offers her breast to us as she assists Jupiter, who is nursed by a goat, and Watteau's scintillating f te galante

Fresh Faces in the Family 2010

Poussin's splendid "Studies of Warriors and Hippocamps" (c. 1635) represents the artist carefully recording mythical elements from a 1538 engraving by Giovanni Battista Scultori and arranging them pleasingly on a page.

A Private Collection in the Public Eye 2010