Distinguish between the styles and reputation of Peter Paul Rubens and Nicolas Poussin.
What will be an ideal response?
The ideal answer should include:
- Both artists were highly regarded and collected in Louis XIV's court.
- King Louis XIV and the duc de Richelieu had entered into a friendly wager over who was the better painter. Louis won the tennis match that decided the wager, acquiring a large number of works by Poussin from Richelieu.
- The Rubens approach to painting included an emphasis on color, especially the well-lit nudes in the foreground of his paintings like in his The Arrival and Reception of Marie de' Medici at Marseilles.
- Poussin's influence emphasized line through drawing and the creation of form, as can be seen in his The Shepherds of Arcadia.
- Poussin's work addressed intellect, whereas Rubens's work addressed the senses.
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Rome's territorial expansion and exposure to Greek art were facilitated by all of the following events EXCEPT
A) ?the conquest of Syracuse in 211 BCE. B) ?the invasion of Hannibal between 218-201 BCE. C) ?the annexation of Greece as a Roman province in 146 BCE. D) ?the bequeathing of Pergamum to Rome in 133 BCE.