Artist: Nicolas Poussin
Date: 1627
Size: 57 x 74 cm
Museum: Museum of Fine Arts (Budapest, Hungary)
Technique: Oil On Canvas
Poussin is a painter at whom everyone marvels, but perhaps nobody likes. Nor was it his wish to be loved by the public: he declared that painting should address the mind, not the eye or the heart. Alongside Descartes he is the best known exponent of rationalism, the stony seventeenth-century French movement that stubbornly believed that perfection is attainable if we bend the world to the rules of reason. Poussin held the task of art to be that of staging the noble deeds of man in a logical system, as would happen in an ideal world.However, this dogmatic rigour is barely discernible in the Budapest Holy Family. Of all Poussin
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