Collection: Nostalgic

The word comes from the Greek for “pain of return.” In ancient medicine it was, like melancholy, considered an illness born of homesickness. Yet it speaks far more to time than to place: it is the longing for a lost paradise.

Well beyond its origins in Genesis, the myth of the lost paradise has crystallized in the arts into a poetry of return — an evocation of a golden age that works of art let us glimpse, whether again or for the first time.