The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Venue Partner)
1000 Fifth Ave at 82nd St
212.535.7710
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Nicolas Poussin, Summer: Ruth and Boaz, Courtesy Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Feb 12, 2008 – May 11, 2008
Tuesdays–Thursdays (9:30am–5:30pm)
Fridays–Saturdays (9:30am–9pm)
Sundays (9:30am–5:30pm)
- Where
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Directions: Main Building: Take the 4, 5, or 6 train to 86th Street and walk to Fifth Avenue; OR take the M1, M2, M3, or M4 bus along Fifth Avenue. The Cloisters: Take the A train to 190th Street and walk, or transfer to the M4 bus and ride north one stop.
- Price
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$20
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France's first superstar painter, Nicolas Poussin trained in Rome during the baroque era, at the height of Italy's artistic dominance. His intellectual classicism didn't find favor there (the church preferred emotionally persuasive images), so Poussin decamped to Paris, where his sophisticated works appealed to the growing intellectual bourgeoisie. The new Met exhibit Poussin and Nature pays special attention to his landscape works and plein-air drawing. Equal part Hellenist and proto-romantic, Poussin set his narrative paintings into imaginary but richly detailed landscapes. In Landscape with a Man Killed by a Snake, a sunny day takes a macabre turn as the natural and human worlds collide; the painting elicits a contagious fear.
