e/The Four Seasons (Poussin)

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has gloss	eng: The Four Seasons (fr Les Quatre Saisons) was the last set of four oil paintings completed by the French painter Nicolas Poussin (1594–1665). The set was painted in Rome between 1660 and 1664 for the Duc de Richelieu, the nephew of Cardinal Richelieu. Each painting is an elegaic landscape with Old Testament figures conveying the different seasons and times of the day. Executed when the artist was in failing health suffering from a tremor in his hands, the Seasons are a philosophical reflection on order in the natural world. The iconography evokes not only the Christian themes of death and resurrection but also the pagan imagery of classical antiquity: the poetic worlds of Miltons Paradise Lost and Virgils Georgics. The paintings currently hang in a room on their own in the Louvre in...
lexicalization	eng: The Four Seasons
instance of	(noun) French painter in the classical style (1594-1665) Poussin, Nicolas Poussin

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