The Judgement of Solomon (hanging in Louvre Museum, Paris) is another painting where Poussin found, I believe, a precise balance between color and composition. While the influence of Venice makes itself evident in the rich red, orange, and blue of the robes, it’s the rigorous geometrical organization, unusually austere when compared to the often overabundant Italians of High Renaissance and later periods, that underlies and informs this piece. Both color and composition provide layers of meaning, and combined they produce a whole that is more than the sum of its parts.
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