Painting #048 - Nicolas Poussin

Nicolas Poussin

(1594–1665, French) 

Self-portrait
- Nicolas Poussin
- oil on canvas  (94 x 78 cm)  1650
- Louvre  (Paris) 

Et in Arcadia ego / 牧羊人敬拜
- Nicolas Poussin
- oil on canvas  (87 x 120 cm)  1637-39
- Louvre  (Paris)

Et in Arcadia ego would be a memento mori, to mean that "the person buried in this tomb lived in Arcadia"; Arcadia symbolized pure, rural, idyllic life, far from the city / [古希臘]世外桃源. 

 Et in Arcadia ego

The Holy Family on the Steps
- Nicolas Poussin
- oil on canvas (69 x 98 cm) 1648
- National Gallery of Art (Washington) 

R-L: Joseph (father), Jesus (son) and Mary (mother), John (cousin of Jesus, the future John the Baptist) and Elizabeth (John's mother).

The Burial of Phocion
- Nicolas Poussin
- oil on canvas (114 x 175 cm) 1648
- National Museum (Wales)  

Whilst the Athenian senate passed the motion to war with Macedonia, their general Phocion insisted on peace. He was condemned and executed, and his unburied corpse banished, and taken to the outskirts where it was burnt.

Source: Wikipedia