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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