Locus amoenus
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Locus amoenus is a literary topos involving an idealized place of safety or comfort. A locus amoenus is usually a beautiful, shady lawn or open woodland, or a group of idyllic islands, sometimes with
John Constable's Wivenhoe Park, Essex: An idyllic scene featuring trees, grass, and water
Maerten Ryckaert, Rocky Pastoral Landscape
Modern-day Arcadia
Characters in the Forest of Arden in Shakespeare's As You Like It
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
Locus amoenus
…region of Greece, was frequently depicted as a locus amoenus whose inhabitants lived in harmony with nature; in time, this usage evolved to describe a broader utopian vision based around simple, pastoral living. In Ovid's Metamorphoses, the function of the locus amoenus is inverted, to form the "locus terribilis". Instead…
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