This image contrasts the styles of two of the most influential Baroque artists, Nicolas Poussin and Peter Paul Rubens. Although they were contemporaries and both interested in Greco/Roman history and mythology, they developed two varying approaches to depicting this subject matter. Rubens combined the developments of the Italian Renaissance and Italian Baroque with his own Flemish painting heritage; the result was an innovative, dynamic style, known as International Baroque, which was truly the first pan-European manner. This unique style is manifested in The Rape of the Daughters of Leuccipus (image on the left), in the idealized and voluptuous figures, dramatic diagonal composition, intense colors, and energetic, lyrical brushstrokes. Poussin’s paintings, on the other hand, are the epitome of French Classical Baroque and The Rape of the Sabine Women is a wonderful example of this style. While this scene exhibits some baroque elements, such as an extremely dramatic and violent event, Poussin’s painting is a manifestation of his written ideas concerning a “grand manner” of classicism, which called for noble subjects, an elimination of trivial details, and a clearly ordered, unified and severe composition. Despite the action of the scene, the figures appear frozen with mask-like expressions, giving the scene a sense of timelessness. The seventeenth century was a rich, creative period and these paintings reveal the variety of developments that occurred in Baroque art. Digitized static images of the paintings