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The following was written and submitted by Jean Ershler Schatz, artist and researcher from Laguna Woods, California:
Nicolas Poussin was born in 1594 to middle-class parents in a small village near the town of Les Andelys in Normandy, France. Apart from a few lessons from the now almost forgotten Mannerist, Quentin Varin, Poussin was his own painting master.
His formal education was literary; he learned Latin first at the parish school, then at college, and with that foundat (showing 500 of 1959 characters). |
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