Et in arcadia ego di guercino biography

Il dipinto del Guercino venne realizzato in seguito ad una certa richiesta di tali soggetti a sfondo morale a Venezia e a Roma. Giorno della memoria 27 gennaio Arte e Olocausto, disegni, dipinti e monumenti. Anche da vedere a scuola. Et in Arcadia Ego del Guercino compare come titolo di inventario nel in possesso di Antonio Barberini. I due lavori sono, quindi, considerati dagli storici legati per via della simile impostazione.

This painting is directly connected to the Apollo and Marsyas that Guercino carried out for the Grand Duke of Tuscany in Galleria Palatina, Palazzo Pitti, Florence : both pictures include the same group of shepherds. It is assumed that the Barberini canvas could not have existed as an independent composition prior to the Florentine painting, and so must have been executed later.

In this painting, Guercino transforms the rustic onlookers into protagonists in a self-sufficient moralizing theme. 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. 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 Eclogue Daphnis ego in silvis "Daphnis was I amid the woods"and that it referred to the dead shepherd within the tomb, rather than Death itself.

Mentioned for the first time in the collection of Antonio Barberini inthe painting was later acquired by Colonna of Sciarrabeing attributed to Bartolomeo Schedoni until Nicolas Poussin also made two paintings on the topic of Et in Arcadia egoless than two decades later.

Et in arcadia ego di guercino biography

The painting is connected with Guercino's The Flaying of Marsyas by Apollo in Palazzo Pittiwhere the same group of shepherds is present. In altri progetti. Wikimedia Commons Elemento Wikidata. Voce principale: Et in Arcadia ego. Note [ modifica modifica wikitesto ]. Bibliografia [ modifica modifica wikitesto ].