Resumen de Poussin "refusé" (2)
The transformation of Nicolas Poussin's stylistic language between the late 1630s and the early 1640s is the result of his reaction to knowledge of Girard Desargues' method of perspective. Abraham Bosse was the main disseminator of Arguesian perspective. Poussin was probably not as rigorous in applying the method as were other “Atticist” painters in Paris like Le Sueur or Le Hyre (who were students of Bosse). However, the contact with this culture, so important in the France of Richelieu and of de Sublet de Noyers, seems to have had a decisive role for the birth of the “classicist” Poussin, and was evident first of all in landscape, as well as in the relations between Poussin's and Desargues' entourage.
