Poussin's Landscape

Poussin’s landscape can be seen as an example of seventeenth-century Classicism because this artwork has several characteristics of seventeenth-century classicalism, for example, we can see that Saint John sits on an imaginary recreation of the Greek island of Patmos by himself and he wore an ancient Greek robe, also there is an eagle behind him. The whole background is particularly magnificent, which also includes some ancient Roman elements of the building.
In the seventeenth century, the French classical literature and art was particularly developed. The artistic characteristics of classicalism are: first, the artworks have to emphasizing and followed the traditions of the ancient and the Renaissance; Second, the theme of art works are mostly