Rhapsodies

Today’s Sketch is a detail from Nicolas Poussin‘s Venus & Ares from the Boston Museum of Fine Art.

Poussin was one of the artists that introduced me to Greek Mythology. My mother was a docent at the National Gallery and she would walk me and my sister through the gallery showing us how to recognize the deities by their symbols and tell us all of the dieties by their symbols and telling us all of the stories that these paintings were illustrating. I was hooked for life.

Of course now that I am very familiar with the original material a lot of this stuff comes off as just a little over the top and tacky… but in a good way.