Poussin, Titian and tradition:The Birth of Bacchusand the genealogy of images

Abstract

The Birth of Bacchus, now in the Fogg Museum at Harvard, is one of Nicolas Poussin's strangest paintings (figure 1).1 It was excecuted in 1657 for Jacques Stella, a follower of the artist, who was then living in Paris. Giovanni Pietro Bellori — Poussin's close friend, and a major theorist of seventeenth-century classicism — gives the following description in his biography of the painter:

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