Week 3

This week we read E.M. Forster's A Room with a View

Statue of Aesculapius
Roman, After a Greek Original
Second Century A.D.
Our first location was the Sir John Soane Museum. It was beautiful collection of architecture and art in his home. By viewing the collection you have a window into what cultures he valued and what he considered beautiful. I mainly saw works from Greece, Rome, and Egypt. Mainly Rome, Venice, and Greece were places the wealthy English men went on their Grand Tour to see beauty, history, and culture.

Canaletto
Venice: The Basin of San Marco on Ascension Day,
about 1740
Our second location was the National Gallery. Here is a close up of a particular portion of the painting. At the bottom sitting on a boat you can see what could be tourists. You have boats on the canal, but this is a much messier depiction and not the image Lucy was imaging. Lucy Honeychurch is the main character in the novel who goes to Florence strictly as a tourist.



Unknown Italian Artist
An Old Man holding a Pilgrim-Bottle,
probably 1650s



This painting depicts the "wisdom of a traveller who has seen the world." After Lucy travels to Florence many of her views change. Towards the end of the novel her perception on travel and love have evolved.












Canaletto
Venice: The Grand Canal with S. Simeone Piccolo,about 1740
This is a perfect painting of what a tourist expects their view to be of Italy. The description says that this scene was popular for English tourist. This is Santa Croce in Venice, but Lucy travelled to Santa Croce in Florence without her Baedecker. The day did not go as planned for her so she did not get this serene experience.


JMW Turner
Palestrina - Composition
1828, exhibited 1830

For our final destination we revisited the Tate Britain to see the work of Turner. In this painting we are confronted with a different view of Italy. This painting is more of the impressionist style and captures the beauty in a different way. This shows more of the real Italian life. A character in the novel, Miss Lavish would like to meddle in the lives of the people in this painting and use it for her novel.

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  1. UnknownJuly 20, 2017 at 11:43 PM

    Very cool captions and great explanations.

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  2. UnknownJuly 22, 2017 at 1:49 PM

    I love that you took specific examples from the novel and related them back to the pictures. You clearly took the time to think about this.

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  3. UnknownJuly 23, 2017 at 5:53 AM

    I really like that you gave such detailed descriptions of the site visits and their relation to this week's theme. Good job, also, on connecting the art to our readings!

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  4. Professor SteeleJuly 24, 2017 at 10:48 PM

    This is a wonderful guide to your week: what YOU saw and why the sites, images, and objects mattered to thinking about coming of age as a traveller. Well done!

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