Et in arcadia ego guercino biography
Et in arcadia ego guercino biography
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Et in Arcadia ego (Guercino)
Painting by Guercino
Et in Arcadia ego (also known as The Arcadian Shepherds) is an oil-on-canvas painting created c.
1618–1622 by the Italian Baroque artist Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (Guercino). It is now on display in the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica of Rome.
Description
The painting shows two young shepherds staring at a skull, with a mouse and a blowfly, placed onto a cippus with the words "Et in Arcadia ego" (Also in Paradise I am).
This phrase is meant as a warning, that even in Arcadia/Paradise, death is always present.
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The phrase appears for the first time in art and architecture in this work. The iconography of the memento mori theme symbolised in art by the skull was rather popular in Rome and Venice since Renaissance times.
Elias L.
Rivers suggested the phrase "Et in Arcadia ego" is derived from a line from Daphnis' funeral in Virgil's Fifth EclogueDaphnis ego in silvis ("Daphnis was I amid the woods"), and that it