One painting with this title depicts two figures identical to men watching from a forest in its artist'sApollo Flaying Marsyas, who look at a fly and a mouse next to a skull.
Joshua Reynolds's portrait of Mrs. Bouverie and Mrs. Crewe was inspired by the main theme of several paintings with this title. One painting with this title depicts two figures identical to men watching from a forest in its artist'sApollo Flaying Marsyas, who look at a fly and a mouse next to a skull. Besides that painting by Guercino, another painting of this name depicts Alpheus spilling an urn full of water. According to Erwin Panofsky'sMeaning and the Visual Arts, the central subject of a more famous painting of this name is not a mere death's-head, but mortality itself. In that painting of this name, a woman in a yellow cloak stands in a pastoral landscape next to three men attempting to make out an inscription on a sarcophagus. For 10 points, identify the shared name of two paintings by Nicholas Poussin which depict shepherds discovering a grave.
Joshua Reynolds's portrait of Mrs. Bouverie and Mrs. Crewe was inspired by the main theme of several paintings with this title.
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