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Apr 12
Last night, when I was talking to fish, he revealed to me that he too had studied Latin. I asked him why. He said it was because of this painting:
If you look closely to where the shepherds are pointing, there's the inscription "Et in Arcadia Ego," which ultimately derived from a line in Vergil's Eclogues.
Here's similar painting on the same theme that shows the inscription more clearly.
This got us talking about Vanitas and Memento Mori, which reminded him of Li Song, whose most famous painting is of a skeleton using another smaller skeleton to do a puppet show.
"If you want to sound like a cool guy, Li Song's a good painter to know about," fish said. "Even most Chinese painters don't know about him."
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