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Re: Background on PALE FIRE's "Et in Arcadia Ego" (fwd) (fwd)
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Date: Sunday, October 26, 2003 9:17 PM -0800
From: Keith McMullen <keithsz@concentric.net>
To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
Subject: Re: Re: Background on PALE FIRE's "Et in Arcadia Ego" (fwd)
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>>> Based on Panofsky, one of my dictionaries of quotations claims that the
first one to use the phrase "Et in Arcadia ego" was not Poussin (1594-1665)
but the Parma painter Bartolomeo Schidone or Schedoni (1559?-1615).<<<
Guercino was earlier than Poussin as well, also using the skull and shepherd
motif:
http://artyzm.com/world/g/guercino/et.htm
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D. Barton Johnson
NABOKV-L
Date: Sunday, October 26, 2003 9:17 PM -0800
From: Keith McMullen <keithsz@concentric.net>
To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
Subject: Re: Re: Background on PALE FIRE's "Et in Arcadia Ego" (fwd)
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>>> Based on Panofsky, one of my dictionaries of quotations claims that the
first one to use the phrase "Et in Arcadia ego" was not Poussin (1594-1665)
but the Parma painter Bartolomeo Schidone or Schedoni (1559?-1615).<<<
Guercino was earlier than Poussin as well, also using the skull and shepherd
motif:
http://artyzm.com/world/g/guercino/et.htm
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D. Barton Johnson
NABOKV-L