th WORLDCATID identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Marino took him into his household, and, when he returned to Rome in 1623, invited Poussin to join him. Among the important works from his later years are Orion Blinded Searching for the Sun, Landscape with Hercules and Cacus, and The Seasons. His skies played a particularly important part, from the blue skies and gray clouds with bright sunlit borders (a sight often called in France "a Poussin sky") to illustrate scenes of tranquility and the serenity of faith, such as the Landscape with Saint John on Patmos, painted in the late 1630s before his departure for Paris; or extremely dark, turbulent and threatening, as a setting for tragic events, as in his Landscape with Pyramus and Thisbe (1651). He responded by making two self-portraits, completed together in 1649.. , The early years of Poussin in Rome were difficult. In 1647, his patrons Chantelou and Pointel requested portraits of Poussin. Markus Lüpertz made a series of paintings in 1989–90 based on Poussin's works.. He took a large part of his themes from the Old Testament, which offered more variety and the stories were often more vague and gave him more freedom to invent. Baroque and Rococo Art Map. His drawings, typically in pen and ink wash, include landscapes drawn from nature to be used as references for painting, and composition studies in which he blocked in his figures and their settings.