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- Title
Poussin, Gombauld, and the Creation of Diana and Endymion.
- Authors
Thomas, Troy
- Abstract
In this essay I investigate the literary sources for Poussin’s Detroit Diana and Endymion (c. 1630), including works by Apollodorus, Cicero, Giambattista Marino, and particularly Jean de Gombauld, whose L’Endimion, a book-length mythological romance, was published in 1624. In addition to his adaption of Crispin de Passe’s engraving in Gombauld’s book showing Endymion kneeling before Diana, Poussin relied heavily on the text itself for his conception of the subject. Gombauld’s work can account for much of the imagery in Poussin’s unique painted version and illuminates his expressive concerns, including the unusual pose and emotional state of Endymion, represented as both love-struck and anxious. I analyse Poussin’s interpretive process in adapting a literary text to the needs of painting, the different purposes of the author and the painter, and, through reception theory, the problems in interpreting narration in a visual image.
- Subjects
POUSSIN, Nicolas, ca. 1594-1665; ENDYMION (Greek mythology); DIANA (Roman deity); GOMBAULD, Jean Ogier de, d. 1666; L'ENDIMION (Book); HISTORY
- Publication
Art History, 2010, Vol 33, Issue 4, p620
- ISSN
0141-6790
- Publication type
Essay
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-8365.2010.00778.x