National Gallery of Australia | Audio Tour | Three Centuries of Italian Art
Giovan BARBIERI detto il Guercino, Arcadia also exists in the afterlife [Et in Arcadia Ego] c.1620
- Author: Vários
- Narrator: Vários
- Publisher: Podcast
- Duration: 0:01:32
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Synopsis
Guercino began his academic training in the Carracci academy and became a master Baroque painter. Shepherds contemplate the after-life expressed in the motto on the stone monument. The mouse and the fly with the skull reinforce the earthly realism of the scene and the dialogue between man and nature.
