The Infant Bacchus Entrusted to the Nymphs of Nysa; The Death of Echo and Narcissus | Harvard Art Museums

Poussin was a French expatriate resident in Rome for most of his career. His insistence on the primacy of form and theme over color and painterly effects made him the preeminent exponent of a severe, stoic classicism. His ideas and methods were so admired that they became the model for European ar…