Rejsedagbog. Firenze 1846

This is a page from Johan Thomas Lundbye’s travel journal from Florence, made sometime in the 1840s. Lundbye was a Danish painter and graphic artist associated with the Golden Age of Danish Painting. The pages include notes on the old masters Lundbye encountered in Florence. We see references to Murillo, Titian, and Raphael. The writing provides a glimpse into Lundbye's artistic and intellectual world, and how deeply he engaged with the art of the Italian Renaissance. These notes are more than mere observations, they are acts of translation. Lundbye grapples with what these artworks mean to him, how they resonate with his own cultural and artistic identity as a Danish artist working within a specific historical context. Lundbye’s journal invites us to consider the intimate relationship between the artist, the artwork, and the act of seeing.