02-17-2013, 06:52 AM
Quote:The painting ostensibly depicts a Roman subject
Well, so does this one...
mile: (Yeah, I know, Picasso is actually 'depicting' David's Rape of the Sabine Women, which in turn was used by T&H on the cover of Simon James' Rome and the Sword...) But my point is that neither Picasso, nor Poussin nor even David present anything genuinely 'Roman', and so none belong on the cover of a modern history book... But like John M Roberts says - it's cheap and it says 'classical' and therefore 'quality'.
Quote:Poussin. (He is too baroque for my taste.)
Hmm, actually I believe Poussin's classicism was intended as a reaction against the contemporary baroque... (fades out into irrelevance)
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Nathan Ross
