Nicolas Poussin: The Seven Sacraments

This groundbreaking volume by an eminent art historian explores the master of French classicism's most famous series of religious paintings.

For more than fifty years, renowned art historian Pierre Rosenberg has studied the work of Nicolas Poussin, one of the greatest painters of the seventeenth century. In this landmark volume, Rosenberg offers a detailed examination of the fourteen paintings in Poussin's two Seven Sacraments series, which occupied the artist for almost fifteen years.

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