Artas Monastery known as Hortus conclusus is a Latin term, meaning literally "enclosed garden" located in Artas Village in Bethlehem District. At their root, both of the words in hortus conclusus refer linguistically to enclosure.
Hortus conclusus is both an emblematic attribute and a title of the Virgin Mary in Medieval and Renaissance poetry and art, suddenly appearing in paintings and manuscript illuminations about 1330 as well as a genre of actual garden that was enclosed both symbolically and as a practical concern, a major theme in the history of gardening.
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