Goal: Locus amoenus

The term "Locus amoenus" is Latin for "pleasant place"
It has come to mean an idealized place of safety or comfort. Just the kind of landscape one might want in a patients room in the hospital.

I kept coming across this term in the book I just finished: Landscape Painting: A History by Nils Buttner. The index to the book lists thirteen references for Locus amoenus!

Here is an example used when discussing Raphael's "Saint George" (circa 1506) "The landscape, with it's distant city above George and his mount, evokes the classical locus amoenus, at the same time suggesting a part of the world freed from Evil..."