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DESCRIPTION:Hilliard T. Goldfarb\n\n'Was Nicolas Poussin really an Atheist?
 : Faith\, Archaeology and Classicism in Seventeenth-Century Rome'\n\nBio: 
 Hilliard Goldfarb is Senior Curator of Collections and Curator of Old Mast
 ers at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. He has curated the exhibition Rem
 brandt Creates Rembrandt: Art and Ambition in Leiden\, 1629–1631 at the Is
 abella Stuart Gardner Museum in Boston (Sep. 2000 – Jan. 2001)\, and most 
 recently Splendore a Venezia: Art and Music from the Renaissance to Baroqu
 e in Venice at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (Oct. 2013 – Jan. 2014). 
 \n\nHe is the author of numerous publications and exhibition catalogues\, 
 including: Toulouse-Lautrec illustrates the Belle Epoque (Yale UP for Mont
 real Museum of Fine Arts\, 2016)\, From the Hands of the Masters: A Privat
 e Collection (Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec\, 2013)\, Rich
 elieu: Art and Power (Montreal Museum of Fine Arts\, 2002)\, Titian and Ru
 bens: Power\, Politics\, and Style (Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum\, 1998
 )\, Botticelli's Witness: Changing Style in a Changing Florence (Isabella 
 Stewart Gardner Museum\, 1997)\, A Humanist Vision: The Adolph Weil\, Jr. 
 Collection of Rembrandt Prints (Hood Museum of Art\, 1988).\n	 \n\nAbstract
 : Nicolas Poussin stands as the most revered artist in the history of Fran
 ce\, although he lived and worked in Rome by choice for 40 years. This gre
 at figure influenced artists for centuries\, from Jacques-Louis David to P
 ablo Picasso.\n\nTo some extent\, our vision of Poussin has been molded by
  the work of our brilliant predecessors\, scholars who unconsciously and c
 onsciously brought their own predispositions\, including atheism\, into th
 eir characterizations and focuses upon him. Poussin became the model of co
 ol intellectualism and severe classicism\, as asserted by biographers and 
 art theoreticians of his own times (e.g. Giovanni Pietro Bellori)\, the Ac
 adémie Royale des Peintures and its post-revolutionary successor\, as well
  as such modern scholars as Anthony Blunt\, Jacques Thuillier and their su
 ccessors: he has been academicised into the embodiment of French secular r
 ationalism. Yet nearly half of his works bear religious themes\, including
  two remarkable series of depictions of the Seven Sacraments\, among his g
 reatest masterpieces.\n\nThis lecture will explore aspects of the actual R
 oman culture that Poussin experienced\, of the passion for archaeological 
 rediscovery of the earliest Church history\, from explorations of the cata
 combs to the researches of scholars such as Cardinal Cesare Baronio. It wi
 ll also examine the broader religious climate in Rome in which Poussin him
 self worked for most of his active career. It will present the evidence of
  religious affiliations of those close to him\, explore the nature of neo-
 Stoicism in the seventeenth century\, a philosophical movement with which 
 Poussin is generally associated\, and will close on some revealing archiva
 l discoveries on the artist himself.\n\nThe thesis of this lecture is esse
 ntially that the weight of evidence\, both circumstantial and direct\, is 
 that Poussin\, contrary to being an atheist\, was a sincerely believing Ca
 tholic. Such a positing of faith in no way diminishes the breadth of sourc
 es and subjects that the artist explored\, nor a neo-stoic disposition. Th
 e talk will culminate in an exploration of one of the most moving of Nicol
 as Poussin’s works\, his sombre and profoundly tragic depiction of the Cru
 cifixion of Christ.\n
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LOCATION:W-215\, Arts Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 0G5\, 853 rue She
 rbrooke Ouest
SUMMARY:AHCS Speaker Series | Hilliard T. Goldfarb: 'Was Nicolas Poussin re
 ally an Atheist?: Faith\, Archaeology and Classicism in Seventeenth-Centur
 y Rome'
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