Todd Olson

Todd Olson is Professor of Art History at UC Berkeley and the author of Poussin and France: Painting, Humanism and the Politics of Style (Yale University Press, 2002) and Caravaggio’s Pitiful Relics (Yale University Press, 2014).

Why Nicolas Poussin? Or, rather, which Poussins over forty odd years?

Nicolas Poussin, Francis Xavier resurrecting a woman in Japan, 1641. Oil on canvas, 174 ¾ × 92 ⅛ inches. Musée du Louvre, Paris.

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