The Role of Nicolas Poussin in the Establishment of French Classicism as Seen from His Involvement in Richelieu's Arts Policy

尽管法国画家尼古拉斯·普桑被公认为17世纪法国古典主义的代表人物，但他实际上生活在罗马，并以罗马为活动基地，正是在那里，他实现了自己的艺术愿景。鉴于这些事实，关于普桑在法国建立古典艺术时对法国艺术潮流起到直接作用的能力，仍有进一步研究的空间。这项研究认为，这位画家可能积极参与了路易十三的首席部长黎塞留枢机主教所执行的艺术政策，因此能够主导法国艺术的方向，并考虑到Poussin活动的以下三个方面：选择古代作为移植到法国的典范并制作复制品；他以古典主义天花板画的模式装饰卢浮宫的大画廊；他创作的场景旨在吸引巴黎的艺术鉴赏家。

Although French painter Nicolas Poussin is recognized as a representative figure in 17th-century French classicism, he actually lived and based his activities in Rome, and it is there that he realized his artistic vision. Given these facts, room remains for further study with regard to the capacity in which Poussin played a direct role in French artistic trends at the time of the establishment of classical art in France. This study considers the possibility that the painter was actively involved in the arts policies carried out by the First Minister of Louis XIII, Cardinal Richelieu and was therefore in a position to govern the direction of French art, taking the following three aspects of Poussin's activities into consideration: the selection of Antiquity as a model to transplant to France and the production of copies; his decoration of the Grande Galerie of the Louvre on the model of a classicist ceiling painting; and his production of tableaux aimed at connoisseurs of arts in Paris.