A Dance to the Music of Time

Apollo in the Sky with Dancers

Nicolas Poussin, French painter, drew on subjects of antiquity for his paintings. He is considered a “classicist” because of his preference for clarity, order and line over color. In this painting he depicts the Four Seasons dancing, while Time plays a lyre, and Apollo the sun-god in his chariot, flies across the morning sky.

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A Dance to the Music of Time

Nicolas Poussin, c.1634

The Wallace Collection, London, England

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