Nicolas Poussin and Thomas Cole are two well-known artists, living and producing work during different time periods. Poussin was an artist who emphasized and relished in his works around the ideas of classical rationalism and antiquity working often with historical referencing and mythology. In his ...

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Here Botticelli passionately tries to recapture the former glory of Rome, because the classical myths had become popular among educated laymen. To these men, the mythology of the Greeks and Romans represented something more than captivating stories; they were convinced these classical legends must have contained some profound and mysterious truth. ...

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