Have med arkitektur. Caprarola 1730 - 1790

Jens Petersen Lund made this drawing of a garden with architecture in sanguine chalk in the 18th century. The work depicts a fantastic, idealized garden, complete with classical statuary. The statues, architecture, and even the garden’s layout evoke ancient Rome. Lund was born in Denmark, but this image represents the Italian garden of the Palazzo Farnese in Caprarola. We can analyze the drawing as an example of the Grand Tour, where young, wealthy Europeans, primarily British, would travel to experience art, culture, and architecture, particularly that of classical antiquity and the Italian Renaissance. Lund seems to have been inspired by this, and so the image is an imagined reconstruction of a place that represents the education, refinement, and social status which this kind of knowledge conferred. Studying the history of taste helps us to understand not just art but social aspiration.