Belonging To The In Crowd By Nicholas Poussin

Nicholas Poussin was a man that helped push French art forward with inspiration from the Italian Baroque art style, and taking his own influence from Greek statues. Copper references that Poussin used references from ancient Greece and neoclassicism to lead his art style. Also according to Plax, in his article “Belonging to the In Crowd” artists around this time in France banded together and started connecting and communicating with one another to build bonds and relationships. The Death of Germanicus looks like a painting of ancient Greek and Roman heroes going off to battle. He creates this mood of adventure, and somberness with everyone’s posture and facial expression. From the women crying on the right side, to all the men cheering around the guy on the bed. This mood from the figures shows progress in art to show expresstion.
Even with his new rough painting style, it still carries a powerful mood that shows the horror and fear of the women on the left side, as she is taken away while everyone else flees in fear. Poussin still uses his inspiration of antiquity as seen with the man in a Roman outfit standing and preaching out to the chaos down below him. However, every other figure in this frame in in action, and this concept might have originated from an older tale about a similar hectic event that took place. The Rape of the Sabine Women I was a forward step in Poussin’s expression of people’s emotions, and style choice for the chaotic