The dramatic impact of the moment when St. Paul disrobes in protest is captured in the drawing with unprecedented confidence and vitality. Raphael's well-known fresco of this theme in the Vatican's Stanza della Segnatura , painted around 1511, so strongly influenced Poussin's Apollo that the work is seen as an homage to Raphael the master. Executed with a fine quill pen that gives it a buoyantly animated quality, Poussin's treatment of the sun god surrounded by muses and poets at the side of the Castilian Spring is remarkable for its economy of line and abstract simplification of form. Like his predecessor, Poussin's primary concern was to achieve an ideal sense of harmony and provide balance to this crowded gathering of poets. No parking reservations needed on Saturdays and Sundays or after 4 p.m. on Thursdays and Fridays.
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