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Goethe's Italian Journey (1816) has "Et In Arcadia Ego" as its motto. Goethe viewed Guercino's painting in Cento (17 October 1786).Hans Christian Andersen's "Improvisatoren" (1835) in chapter 13 two of the main characters discuss the painting.
William Faulkner's 1923 novel "The Sound And The Fury" mentions "Et in Arcadia Ego" in reference to Maury, a mentally disabled man.
"Et in Arcadia Ego" is the title of Book One of Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited (1945).
In Cormac McCarthy's novel Blood Meridian, it is the name of the Judge's gun.
Tom Stoppard's 1993 play Arcadia implicitly references Guercino's painting in its title and explicitly alludes to the painting in Act 1, scene 1. Lady Croom first mistranslates it slightly as "Here I am in Arcadia!", missing the implication of death, but Septimus later translates it correctly, in reference to the killing of pigeons (, pp. 25–27). The painting works to foreground the play's focus on the beauty of life and the reality of death.
In the 2017 game Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth – Hacker's Memory "Even In Arcadia, There Am I"  is the name given to the 17th chapter.
"Et In Arcadia Ego" is the title of the ninth and tenth episodes of the first season of Star Trek: Picard
"Et In Arcadia Ego" is the title of the first episode of the first season of Brideshead Revisited
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