Arcadia games: art will always love the rural idyll

An exhibition of paintings by Peter Lely recalls the power of the bucolic ideal in art from ancient Greece to Pink FloydEveryone dreams of escape. Maybe your holiday idyll is white sands, blue sea, golden sun. We're going into winter, so nurture those getaway fantasies. How about Arcadia next year?Arcadia is the world's oldest escapist fantasy. It is also a real place, in Greece, and even today offers some remote antidotes to urban life. But it is above all a land of myth. In old Arcadia, the sh...

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