Resumen de Poussin, Roma, Amor: Méditations sur une tempête à Babylone
Pussin, Roma, Amor: Meditations on a Storm in Babylon.
The "Paysage de Tempête avec Pyrame et Thisbé" is one of Poussin's most famous paintings today, as well as one of the most analyzed. The iconography associating the tragic love affair of Pyramus and Thisbe, recounted by Ovid, with a stormy landscape, filled with Roman architectures, has given way to numerous interpretations due to its singularity. For some, it is the representation of that which cannot be represented, the very image of the Sublime in painting; while for others the paintings is above all a Stoic mediation on the blindness of mankind, toys of unpredictable Fortune. The author proposes to re-read this famous landscape using the yardstick of theology of Saint Augustine, as an invitation to flee from Babylon, capital of the demon and concupiscence, and to bathe the regard in the peaceful lake, image of celestial Jerusalem. Following this path of analysis leads to the view in Poussin's work of an Augustinian conception of history: a providential history of the earthly world, based on two cities, Babylon and Jerusalem, one earthy love, the other heavenly love, of which Rome alone would be the mysterious "figure".
