Other worlds: utopias in the art of late ancient Eurasia

This article examines a profound contradiction inherent in the idea of utopia as conceptually formulated by Thomas More in the Renaissance and clearly implicit in pre-humanist utopian, Arcadian, or paradisal imagery and descriptions, reaching back via early Christianity to Greco-Roman antiquity and...

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Main Author: Elsner, J
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: University of Chicago Press 2021