Poussin and the poetics of painting
Subtitle: pictorial narrative and the Legacy of Tasso
By: Jonathan Unglaub.
Contributors: Poussin, Nicolas, 1594?-1665.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Cambridge [England]; New York, NY, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9780521833677
Subjects: Poussin, Nicolas, 1594?-1665 -- Criticism and interpretation; Tasso, Torquato, 1544-1595; Tasso, Torquato, 1544-1595 -- Influence; Narrative painting, French -- 17th century; Ut pictura poesis (Aesthetics); Art and literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "Ut pictura poetica": Poussin and the poetics of Tasso; title: Poussin's Novità; title: Metaphorical reflections in Echo and Narcissus and Rinaldo and Armida; title: The critique of the Gerusalemme liberata and the visual arts; title: Poussin, Marino and painting in the Ovidian age; title: Poussin, Raphael and Tasso: the poetics of history painting; title: Poussin and the Gerusalemme liberata: action into episode, history into myth.