Poussin Helps You Ponder: Art Doctor Quickies | Nicolas Poussin, Et in Arcadia ego, 1638-40

Picture this: four shepherds living in a utopia come across a gravestone. What the heck is THAT? Ponder with them, and enjoy the most colourful painter of the baroque period.

More on Et in Arcadia ego:
https://medium.com/thinksheet/how-to-read-paintings-et-in-arcadia-ego-by-nicolas-poussin-14023bc7b1b
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Et_in_Arcadia_ego
https://collections.louvre.fr/ark:/53355/cl010062528
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memento_mori

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***This video was made on the unceded land of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation. I pay my respects to their elders – past, present and emerging.***