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| Mozes van Wtenbrouck Hagar and Ishmael in the wilderness before 1646 etching Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Abraham Bosse Book illustration for L'Arlane 1639 etching British Museum |
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| Giacinto Gimignani Semiramis vows not to groom her hair until the enemy is defeated 1647 etching British Museum |
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| Giacinto Gimignani Cleopatra drops a pearl into her goblet before Marc Antony 1647 etching British Museum |
"The affetti, or emotions, meant to Poussin and to the seventeenth century in general the outward manifestations, in movement or gesture, of inward reactions, either psychic or physical. Through systematizing the affetti, Poussin delineated certain clear, unmixed emotions, associating with each emotion a distinguishing attitude. To create his vocabulary of gestures, Poussin followed in general the dictates of Roman rhetorical writers (Cicero, and especially Quintilian, who describes appropriate oratorical gestures in detail). Poussin also illustrated, and therefore must have known well, Leonardo's Trattato della Pittura (first published in French and Italian, 1651) which contains Leonardo's naturalistic observation that an inward emotion must be depicted by its outward physical effect."
– Walter Friedlaender, from Nicolas Poussin : a New Approach (Abrams, 1966)
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| Lorenzo Loli after Giovanni Andrea Sirani Figure of Fame before 1691 etching Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
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| Jacques Bellange St Matthias ca. 1600-16 etching, engraving Museum of Fine Arts, Houston |
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| Jacques Bellange Holy Women at the Sepulchre ca. 1613-16 etching, engraving Museum of Fine Arts, Houston |
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| Jacques Callot Portrait of Claude Deruet with his son 1632 etching Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
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| attributed to Lazzaro Baldi St Luke writing his Gospel, supported by ox on cloud before 1690 etching British Museum |
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| Giulio Cesare Procaccini Madonna and Child before 1625 etching British Museum |
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| Rembrandt Angel departing from the family of Tobias 1641 etching Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Rembrandt Joseph telling his dreams 1638 etching Museum of Fine Arts, Houston |
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| Rembrandt Portrait of Ephraim Bueno, Physician 1647 etching, drypoint Jewish Museum, New York |
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| Rembrandt Jupiter and Antiope 1659 etching Museum of Fine Arts, Houston |
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| Rembrandt Bearded old man with fur cap and velvet cloak ca. 1632 etching Museum of Fine Arts, Houston |