Garden as Ideal Landscape of Its Time - Arcadia in the Garden of the Sorkočević Villa in Rijeka Dubrovačka

Abstract

The garden of the Sorkočević Villa in Rijeka Dubrovačka will be studied as an entity in which morphological and phenomenological components are inseparable – in relation to the culture of Dubrovnik villas and the Italian Renaissance and Baroque concepts, considered in the context of the longue durée. The research goal is to examine the value of the garden in the social and private life of the villa, its representational value as well as the performance in the context of locus amoenus – one of the crucial elements of the concept of Arcadia. Accordingly, the garden will be considered as the active constructor and carrier of ideas of its time, reflected in literature, philosophy, and art.