Gesture Gallery

Et in Arcadia Ego, c1650. Artist: Nicolas Poussin

Et in Arcadia Ego, c1650. The painting, also known as The Arcadian Shepherds, shows a Greek mythological scene in which a group of shepherds inspects an inscribed coffin. Et in Arcadia Ego has variously been translated as I, too, in Arcadia, I am also in Arcadia or I am even in Arcadia. One interpretation of the meaning is that the person buried in the tomb has lived in Arcadia, that is, the dead person once enjoyed the pleasures of life on earth

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Portrait of Captain Marshall Roberts, Master of the Fox Hounds, 1926 (oil on canvas)

657942 Portrait of Captain Marshall Roberts, Master of the Fox Hounds, 1926 (oil on canvas) by Orpen, William (1878-1931); 124.5x90.2 cm; Private Collection; (add.info.: Portrait of Captain Marshall Roberts, Master of the Fox Hounds. Sir William Orpen (1878-1931). Oil on canvas. Painted in 1926. 124.5 x 90.2cm); Photo A© Christie's Images; Irish, out of copyright

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Nikolay Urvantsev, Soviet geologist

Nikolay Nikolayevich Urvantsev (1893-1985), Soviet geologist, speaking in public at his 80th birthday celebration. Urvantsev is best known for his exploration of northern Siberia and the Arctic, including: the Norilsk coal basin (1919 to 1922); the islands of Severnaya Zemlya (1931 to 1933); and the steamship Pravda oil exploration expedition (1933 to 1934). After imprisonment by Stalin, Urvantsev was rehabilitated in 1954 and became Chair of Arctic Geology at the national ocean geology institute. Photographed in Leningrad (St Petersburg), Russia, in 1973

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