 Two men were going to play a special role in the color crusade. It may seem odd to mention royal historiographer André Félibien first because he is generally and rightly considered as a supporter of Poussin. But he was also liberal-minded, respectful of differing opinions (it was to cost him his position!) and anxious to find a fair balance between the gifts of the mind and the talents of the hand. For him, “beauty is a result of the proportion and symmetry between corporeal and material parts” (1725 [AT: 220]), so that color cannot be discarded since 