Arcadia (utopia)
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Arcadia refers to a vision of the pastoral and harmony with nature. The term is derived from the Greek province of the same name which dates to antiquity; the province's mountainous topography and spa
Thomas Cole's The Arcadian or Pastoral State, 1834
Urpo Tikka's etching Afternoon at Arcadia, 1995
Friedrich August von Kaulbach's In Arcadia
Thomas Eakins's Arcadia
Golden Age
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The term Golden Age comes from Greek mythology, particularly the Works and Days of Hesiod, and is part of the description of temporal decline of the state of peoples through five Ages, Gold being the
Arcadia (utopia)
…life, contrasting to the progressive nature of Utopian desires. The inhabitants were often regarded as having continued to live after the manner of the Golden Age, without the pride and avarice that corrupted other regions. It is also sometimes referred to in English poetry as Arcady (). The inhabitants of this…
The Golden Age by Pietro da Cortona (Palazzo Pitti, Florence, Italy)
The Golden Age (c. 1530) by Lucas Cranach the Elder
Robert Willemsz de Baudous: Golden Age, etching, c. 1598.
Sculpture of Pan teaching Daphnis to play the pipes; c. 100 BCE, found in Pompeii.