Introduction

Poussin, Gombauld, and the Creation of Diana and Endymion

“…The artist's intertextual approach here recalls Unglaub's remark that Poussin's paintings thoroughly imitate the fi gurative devices, the textuality, of their literary sources. 68 The artist shows his imaginative genius in choosing to set his scene at dawn, the time described by Gombauld and made evident in the painting by the revelation of Apollo's sun behind Nox's curtain. In a symbolic inversion, Gombauld has the shepherd imagine that the brightness comes from Diana and not the dawn.…”