Historian Simon Schama takes us on a journey into the heart of Arcadia—a concept steeped in culture, mythology, and the relationship between humanity and the natural world. This final installment delves deeply into how the ideal of Arcadia has influenced our imagination, focusing on how artists, philosophers, and writers have painted and penned their own visions of this pastoral paradise.
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Dr Janina Ramirez goes ‘In Search of Arcadia’ discovering the origins of the English landscape movement in a 12-mile stretch of the Thames between Hampton and Chiswick with waterman and historian John Bailey. In the early 18th century this stretch of the river was home to a group of writers, poets, artists and garden designers who were inspired by classical landscapes of antiquity and the ancient idea of Arcadia. Janina discovers the people and the ideas at the heart of this transformative movement and the landscape of the Thames – Nicholas Poussin’s painting Et in Arcadia Ego, the
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