Sentences with word «conclusus»

In the 1990s, comics left the mainstream and went into their own little ecosystem, a hortus conclusus where only those who had special knowledge (where the stores are, what comics are coming out in two months and need to be preordered now) could buy them.

They were meant to be seats or resting places, according to the local Chamber of Commerce website, on «the little piece of paradise» — a sort of hortus conclusus — that is Vashon Island.

The hortus conclusus is such a seminal motif in art history that the Middelheim Museum could hardly leave the implicit meanings of the new museum grounds unexplored.

This year the museum's summer exhibition, My Little Paradise, puts the Hortiflora firmly in the spotlight, for the garden's design corresponds to the idea of the hortus conclusus, the enclosed garden which in art and literature has been laden with meanings since the Middle Ages.

Start with a stroll through leafy Kensington Gardens to the Serpentine Gallery for its exhibition by Albanian filmmaker Anri Sala, and the exquisite pavilion — or rather the hortus conclusus — designed by Swiss starchitect Peter Zumthor.

That's what a hortus conclusus is for.