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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.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 (I too [was] in Arcadia). The latter is a moral reference to Death.
