Utopia
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A utopia is an imagined community or society that possesses highly desirable or near-perfect qualities for its residents. The term was coined by Sir Thomas More for his 1516 book Utopia, which describ
The Earthly Paradise – Garden of Eden, the left panel from Hieronymus Bosch's The Garden of Earthly Delights
The Golden Age by Lucas Cranach the Elder
A new heaven and new earth, Mortier's Bible, Phillip Medhurst Collection
New Harmony, Indiana, a utopian attempt, depicted as proposed by Robert Owen
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
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…with the blissful and mythic past of humanity. From Sir Philip Sidney's prose romance The Old Arcadia (1580), originally a region in the Peloponnesus, Arcadia became a synonym for any rural area that serves as a pastoral setting, a locus amoenus ("delightful place"). The Biblical Garden of Eden as depicted…
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