the inscription that chills my heart at all hours,
that makes me strangle so much sorrow in my breast.
—Jacopo Sannazano (1458-1530), Italian poet, Arcadia, 1502
Et in Arcadia ego: 'Even in Arcadia I am', this Latin phrase implies that death comes even in a place of great beauty and ease. The painting above, by Nicolas Poussin(1594–1665), is titled "Et in Arcadia ego."
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