FILE: 06_Et in Arcadia Ego, 1630_Poussin.jpg

TITLE: PAINTING - Et in Arcadia Ego, 1630 - BAROQUE PERIOD IN FRANCE

DESCRIPTION: by POUSSIN. Means "I, too, in Arcadia." Arcadia is the ideal place, like heaven. Subject is death. Shepherds find coffin w latin phrase etched on side. Composition is off-center, lots of diagonals, very energetic like Titian, ergo it's TITIANESQUE. Woman on L. is death. Man on R. dying, his water (his life) pouring out.