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Nicolas Poussin Nicolas Poussin, Landscape with Saint John on Patmos (1690), Paul Cézanne, Mount Saint Victoire (1904) – The painting by Cézanne was done more some 300 years after the painting by Poussin. What stylistic characteristics used by the earlier painter to create the illusion of space are also used by Cézanne. What has been changed' In his Landscape with Saint John on Patmos (1640), Nicholas Poussin used linear perspective to demonstrate his knowledge of geometry. He created an idealized landscape adjusting natural and man-made forms according to geometric principles. In the ruins in the foreground/background, a cube, a three dimensional rectangle, and a cylinder are represented in perfect perspectival form, each illustrating a different aspect of foreshortening. The pathway recedes into the distance giving an illusion of depth. Bibliography Similar to Poussin, Cézanne’s Mont Sainte'Victoire (29–39) illustrates the three-dimensional quality of the landscape he sought to create by using color applied in geometric shapes. He wrote that he poussin, forms, cézanne, nature, landscape, tension, saint, painting, geometric, color, canvas, between, art, wanted, three, sought, quality, perspective, patmos, john, illusion, dimensional, depth, cézanne’s, cylinder, created, create, according, years, wrote, working, vitality, victoire, various