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
Utopia (book)
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Utopia is a work of fiction and socio-political satire by Thomas More, written in Latin and published in 1516 and revised in 1518. The book is a frame narrative primarily depicting a fictional island
Utopia
…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 describes a fictional island society in the New World, but some utopian visions predate it. Hypothetical utopias and existing intentional…
Illustration for the 1516 first edition of Utopia
A woodcut by Ambrosius Holbein, illustrating a 1518 edition. In the lower left, Raphael describes the island Utopia.
Sir Thomas More
Text from Utopia painted on a brick wall in Norwich, England