Anthony Blunt (19071983) was director of the Courtauld Institute of Art, professor of art history at London University, and Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures. His many books include Art and Architecture in France, 15001700.
An extraordinary synthesis of Poussin the painter and Poussin the thinker. . . . A classic of modern art history. ---J. M. Brown, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism