As of December 9, 2021, the entry for the painting "Et in Arcadio Ego" includes a section on literary and pop cultural references to the title phrase, but it does not yet mention the fact that Vladimir Nabokov references it in his novel Pale Fire. See p. 237 of the Vintage International edition.
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As of August 21, 2023, the entry for the sixteenth century scholar (and namesake of a famous character in Eliot's Middlemarch ) Isaac Ca...
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