Coming of Age as a Traveler

This view is the view I saw as a traveler. Looking at this picture different thing stick out compared to who is looking at it. As a traveler someone also might notice a certain scene or place more then another. Lucy saw her own views as a traveler and was able to learn the types of things that she noticed. 

This picture by JMW Turner at the Tate called shows the perfect picturesque view someone might imagine before traveling to a location. This was Turners painting of his first View in Venice. Lucy had a similar “room with a view” in Italy before she was able to experience things as a traveler herself. 

This painting of JMW Turners called Riva degli Schiavone, Venice: Water Fete was a painting he made after the previous one. Even though this picture was unfinished the way that Turner saw Venice was different to how he saw it before. His style changed and his view was different just like Lucy’s later view on Italy compared to her first.   

"An Old Man Holding a Pilgrim-Bottle" in the National Museum shows a traveler looking at the world he has explored. The wisdom he has learned through time compares to Lucy’s change as a traveler. Comparing the beginning and end of her journey, readers are able to see the wisdom she in fact gains as a traveler.  

John Soane was a man who traveled around the world on a Grand Tour. He learned a lot about himself through the places and cultures he experienced. At this Museum, it shows a collection of his items that he gathered as a traveler. Though some of his items are different then the traditional traveler souvenirs, they are all things that reflect something that he appreciate and learned coming of age as a traveler.  

Piero di Cosmo is a painting at the National Museum that shows a fight at a wedding. The painting shows a lot of passion and also sexuality. Even though this painting was a painting that would have been hung in a bedroom, the people’s violent passion can be compared to the violent passion Lucy witnessed in Italy.