The word paradise comes from the pari-daiza Persian through the Greek paradeisos , a garden surrounded by a wall that protected him from the hot desert winds. The image of the Garden of Eden or Paradise Lost of Genesis comes from there.
The Gospel does not describe paradise, but it speaks of the kingdom of heaven, which more than one place is a situation or a state.
is in the third century, with St. Cyprian, when happiness is represented as a place, a garden, the Christian paradise, which relates to "a land whose lush green fields covered in food plants and maintain the fragrant flowers. " Image is represented in the mosaic of St. Apollinaris in Classe in Ravenna , a wide, green meadow, majestic trees, grass can, flowers, birds and sheep.
also appears as ideal city or the heavenly Jerusalem, in Revelation, a city protected by high walls, which rest on solid foundations and enlightened by the glory of God, as a consolation to the persecuted Christians.
by the end of the XV and XVI appears as the heavenly court where Queen Mary surrounded by angels singers and musicians . Then, happiness in paradise was to be with Christ, with Mary, his court and listen to lovely music.
The sky occupies Baroque domes of churches, the church itself is paradise. Thus, for example in Assumption of Correggio in the dome of Parma.
Finally, more recently, and since the Reformation, is looking for paradise within oneself, and in some case, as the Jansenists of Port Royal to the contempt of the world.
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