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Join Dr Xavier Bray, Director of The Wallace Collection, as he explores Nicholas Poussin’s magisterial painting, A Dance to the Music of Time.
The painting captures the rhythms of life, with the Seasons dancing to the music of Father Time’s lyre. The sun god Apollo crosses the morning sky. Created during a century of innovations in timekeeping, Poussin’s work is a reflection on human mortality and the passage of time. See it in our Billiard Room today, then visit Keeping Time: Clocks by Boulle, a free display of scintillating 18th-century clocks.
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Nicholas Poussin, A Dance to the Music of Time, 1634–36
Join Dr Xavier Bray, Director of The Wallace Collection, as he explores Nicholas Poussin’s magisterial painting, A Dance to the Music of Time.
The painting captures the rhythms of life, with the Seasons dancing to the music of Father Time’s lyre. The sun god Apollo crosses the morning sky. Created during a century of innovations in timekeeping, Poussin’s work is a reflection on human mortality and the passage of time. See it in our Billiard Room today, then visit Keeping Time: Clocks by Boulle, a free display of scintillating 18th-century clocks.
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Nicholas Poussin, A Dance to the Music of Time, 1634–36
