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Poussin's Sacrament of Ordination Art Publications one of the most enlightenedPainted by Nicolas Poussin, the Sacrament of Ordination, recently acquired by the Kimbell Art Museum, is a major milestone of Franco Italian classicism of the seventeenth century. The magisterial painting depicts Christ's charge to Saint Peter and offers a profound meditation on nature, faith, and the epochal unfolding of sacred history. It is part of Poussin's acclaimed first series of the Seven Sacraments, painted for Cassiano dal Pozzo, one of the