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Nicolas Poussin: Landscape with Polyphemus  wikidata:Q3132791 reasonator:Q3132791
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Nicolas Poussin  (1594–1665)  wikidata:Q41554 s:fr:Auteur:Nicolas Poussin q:en:Nicolas Poussin
 
Nicolas Poussin
Alternative names
Niccolò Possino
Description French painter, drawer and decorator
Date of birth/death June 1594 Edit this at Wikidata 19 November 1665 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Les Andelys Rome
Work location
Paris (1612-1621), Lyon (1622), Rome (1624-1640), Paris (1640-1642), Rome (1643-1665)
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artist QS:P170,Q41554
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Title
Landscape with Polyphemus
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre mythological painting Edit this at Wikidata
Description
Der einäugige Cyklop hat sich in die Seenymphe Galatea verliebt, die jedoch kein Interesse an ihm zeigt. Daher spielt er auf einem Berg inmitten einer klassischen Landschaft seine traurigen Flötenmelodien, denen andere Nymphen und Satyre andächtig lauschen.
Date 1649
date QS:P571,+1649-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 155 cm (61 in); width: 199 cm (78.3 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,155U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,199U174728
institution QS:P195,Q132783
Accession number
ГЭ-1186
Place of creation France Edit this at Wikidata
Notes Als literarische Bildquelle diente Ovid's Metamorphosen, dessen Geschichte vom Kyklop aus der griechischen Mythologie hier mittels der Malerei erzählt wird.
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