"Nicolas Poussin" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... French school of the seventeenth century, he liked neither its devout ceremony nor its pompous portraits: the cold reserve of the gravest of the masters, a certain grayness of soul that clouded the proud works of Nicolas Poussin and the pale faces of Philippe de Champaigne, repelled Christophe from old French art. And, once more, he knew nothing about it. If he had known anything about it he would have misunderstood it. The only modern ...
— Jean Christophe: In Paris - The Market-Place, Antoinette, The House • Romain Rolland |
