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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