Locus amoenus (Latin for "pleasant place") is a literary topos involving an idealized place of safety or comfort. A locus amoenus is usually a beautiful...

tree and the sacred grove. Trees are an attribute of the archetypical locus amoenus. In many parts of the world travelers have observed the custom of hanging...

closer to the golden age than the rest of human life. The setting is a locus amoenus, or a beautiful place in nature, sometimes connected with images of...

(link) Samson, Alexander. Locus Amoenus: Gardens and Horticulture in the Renaissance, 2012 :6 Samson, Alexander. Locus Amoenus: Gardens and Horticulture...

painting by Italian artist Giovanni Francesco Barbieri Garden of Eden Locus amoenus Millennialism Neverland Olam Haba Otherworld Bridget Ann Henish, The...

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 in the...

that Galadriel was one of the bearers of that light. Lothlórien is a locus amoenus, an idyllic land that Tolkien describes as having "no stain". The Tolkien...

examples of topoi are the following: the locus amoenus (for example, the imaginary world of Arcadia) and the locus horridus (for example, Dante's Inferno);...

description of the palaces of Neptune and the Samorim of Calicute, the locus amoenus of the Island of Love (Canto IX), the dinner in the palace of Thetis...

part of the poem's story is set in a walled garden, an example of a locus amoenus, a traditional literary topos in epic poetry and chivalric romance....

Joan Fuguet i Sans (2004). La casa del Palau del Temple, de Barcelona. Locus Amoenus. Pavón Benito, Julia (2018). "El Cartulario del Temple de la encomienda...

sexuality, often associated with the classic and medieval trope of the locus amoenus. In the Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri places the Garden at the top...

existence Liminal deity – Gods of boundaries or transitions Limit situation Locus amoenus – Literary topos involving an idealized place of safety or comfort Phase...

her up to meet her fated match, and deposits her in a lovely meadow (locus amoenus), where she promptly falls asleep. The transported girl awakes to find...

curved bow, first performance: Galerie Stihl, Waiblingen, Germany 2010 locus amoenus (2014) for cello with curved bow, first performance: Foundation Domnick...

which he repeatedly alludes in his letters, and which he describes as locus amoenus et in mari ipso (a pleasant place and right by the sea), commanding...

location of the Catholic Convent of the Hortus Conclusus Gaston Bachelard Locus amoenus Topophilia Renaissance garden Clifford, A History of Garden design,...

Orlando learns the truth, by finding the pair's secret garden of love, or Locus Amoenus, he goes mad with despair and rampages through Europe and Africa destroying...

inserted by Boccaccio in a setting very different from natural to Dante, a locus amoenus in which assumes traits much less gruesome and more like those of a...

Goethe, in his West-eastern Divan, associates it with the ultimate locus amoenus of the Islamic paradise. In his poem titled Deserving Men, which describes...

as opposed to life in the city, with its dangers and intrigues. The Locus Amoenus or description of nature in all its idyllic perfection. Jorge Manrique...

with the male narrator going for a stroll and finding his way to a locus amoenus—or a pleasant spot—where he sees a strange thing: a fenced-off garden...

been criticized and has become much less prevalent. A similar motif, Locus amoenus, is popular in medieval literature (esp. allegory and romance). A dream...

popularity attests to the Byzantines’ enthusiasm for pleasure gardens (locus amoenus). More formal gardening texts, such as the Geoponika (10th century)...

have compared Alcinous' garden and the island of Calypso; both are a locus amoenus with fresh springs and fruit trees. Some differences are noted; Calypso's...

Press. pp. 176–177. ISBN 978-1-8421-2469-7. Samson, Alexander (2012). Locus Amoenus: Gardens and Horticulture in the Renaissance. p. 6. Sharp, Buchanan...

(2016, Sacred Bones) Hyper Super Mega (2018, Sacred Bones) Pan (2022, Locus Amoenus) Berlin (2023, Sacred Bones) EPs Ancient Land (2011, Sacred Bones) Singles...

English at King's College, London. Her doctoral thesis was titled The Locus Amoenus in Old English: Guthlac A and its Cultural Context. Clarke taught at...

classical luxury, is tending his flocks when he sees a grove of trees, a locus amoenus, and lies down to rest. The mythical metamorphoses of the trees in the...

specialty is landscape paintings, specifically idyllic landscapes such as Locus amoenus that posit subjects into the Venetian Countryside. This painting shows...