A Room With a View

On Tuesday, I went to John Soane Museum. A very fascinating, and bizarre place. Very interesting to be explored.

This is the statute of the God Bacchus a very cool piece art that stole my attention. It is very interesting to see how there are many statues that lacked head or other pieces. They represent the view of John Soane which might be pleasant for some people, but others might not. Soane had a unique view and Lucy in the novel A Room With a View had also unique view as a traveler. 

That is a  random painting that I liked called Architectural ruins painted by Clérisseau, Charles Louis. It was located in the painting room. It is also collected by John Soane, shows very fascinating view of Rome and the destroyed buildings. There are also three people wondering at the destroyed buildings of Rome. It represents civilization and existence.  

Wednesday I went to National Gallery Meuseum. In this painting  The Fight between the Lapthis and the Centaurs painted by Piero di Cosimo. One can see  horrific chaos and beautiful nature in all together in one place. The women holding the fainted man in the painting reminds me when Lucy fainted on George's arms. She fainted from similar chaos which a man got murdered and died in front of her. This is one of my favorite paintings.

 An Old Man holding a Pilgrim-Bottle by unknown Italian artist in the National Gallery Museum. A very artsitic  painting that showed a traveler who gained wisdom from traveling. Similarly, Lucy in the novel understood herself, developed an Independence, and saw the beauty of life  from her trip to Florence. She became traveler as well like this wise man.    

        

          This is another painting Venus and Mars by Sandro Botticelli that I stared at for a while.

On the third day, I went to Tate Britain Museum. In the painting above The Dogano, San Giorgio, Citella, from the Steps of the Europa painted by the great artist JMW Turner. It showed a view of Italy from a tourist perspective. Jane was a tourist and she said about Florence in the beginning of the novel "It was pleasant…to lean out into sunshine with beautiful hills and trees and marble churches"(Chapter 2). This quote showed Lucy's view about beauty as tourist which changed through the novel.

       

This other painting was painted by JMW Turner which I was impressed by. It showed faded colors and a melted view of the water and the sky. It was a very mysterious piece. This painting showed Turner's unique view on Italy. Also it is related to the novel because Lucy was told by people what to see and what not and lacked that unique view until she changed and had her own.