- Original Title: Orion aveugle recherche du soleil levant. ... Autumn (The Spies with the Grapes of the Promised Land) - Nicolas Poussin.
- This simple narrative, however, cannot account for many details in Poussin's composition, in particular the presence of Diana who watches Orion's progress...
- Blind Orion Searching for the Rising Sun is a 1658 painting by French artist Nicolas Poussin. Done in oil on canvas...
- When Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665) moved from France to Rome during the 1620s, The French artist only briefly returned once to his home country.
- Nicolas Poussin was the leading painter of the classical French Baroque style, although he spent most of his working life in Rome.
- Edit attribution Image taken from other album: gallerix.org/s/1497655391/N/321774/ Download full size: 3730×2432 px (3,5 Mb) Painter: Nicolas Poussin.
- Creator: Nicolas Poussin. ... External Link: http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/437326.
- Nicolas Poussin’s “Blind Orion Searching for the Rising Sun” (1660 – 64), the painting that inspired this discussion, is a commentary on the rivalry of the arts.
- It is this scene of Cedalion leading Orion toward the sunrise that Nicolas Poussin re-creates in his painting.
- For his depiction of the gigantic hunter, painted for Michel Passart, Poussin drew on the Greek writer Lucian: "Orion who is blind, is carrying Cedalion...