Et in Arcadia ego (Guercino)
- Et in Arcadia ego (Guercino)
Infobox Painting|
title=Et in Arcadia ego
artist=Guercino
year=1618-1622
type=Oil on canvas
height=81
width=91
city=Rome
museum=Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica
"Et in Arcadia ego" (also known as "The Arcadian Shepherds") is a painting by the Italian Baroque artist Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (Guercino), from c. 1618-1622. It is now on display in the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica of Rome.
Mentioned for the first time in the collection of Antonio Barberini in 1644, it was later acquired by Colonna of Sciarra (1812), being attributed to Bartolomeo Schedoni until 1911.
The picture is connected to Guercino's "Flaying of Marsyas by Apollo " in Palazzo Pitti (1618), in which the same group of shepherds is present. the portrait shows the two young shepherds staring at a skull, with a mouse and a blowfly, placed onto a cippus with the words Et in Arcadia ego ("I am in Arcadia too"). The latter is a moral reference to death. The phrase appears for the first time in art and architecture in this work. The iconography of the "memento mori" theme was rather popular in Rome and Venice since Renaissance times.
ee also
*Et in Arcadia ego
*Memento mori
*Baroque painting
*Allegory
References
* [http://www.galleriaborghese.it/barberini/it/arcadia.htm Official Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica website]
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