Goethe - Italian Journey

[Anonymous No.19958869]

Well /lit/, what am I in for? Does he write about Art, Architecture and History? That would be comfy.

[Anonymous No.19958911]

>>19958869
Yeah. It’s a nice travelogue with bits of his scientific thoughts, cultural observations and a little about the books he worked on while there. Not exciting stuff, but leisurely interesting.

[Anonymous No.19958939]

>>19958869
Yeah he talked about art, architecture, history and his search for the classical world. Was really comfy to read, but sometimes a bit long. Definetly a good book though, but not a literary high piece as Faust

[Anonymous No.19958982]

>>19958869
>Does he write about Art, Architecture and History?
Merely as a sidenote. As he started his journey he was in his autistic rock collecting phase, so he comments on that basically all the time: "This type of rock is... LE EPIC."

[Anonymous No.19959006]

>>19958982
He talks about stones on the first two pages. After that, only very sporadically. Haven't you read beyond page 2?

[Anonymous No.19959010]

>>19958982
in the hole italian journey he only talkes once about rocks

[Anonymous No.19959015]

>>19958869
>what am I in for?
sein Tagebuch desü

[Anonymous No.19960120]

>>19959006
>>19959010
>After that, only very sporadically.
From what I recall, the whole time he's in the Alps is basically one long monograph about stones and rocks.
That's a great setup btw for the read-expected-got meme, thanks anons.

[Anonymous No.19960131]

>>19958869
BTW OP, did you notice how weird Goethe's proportions are in this painting (especially his left leg)? Tischbein fucked up a little here.

[Anonymous No.19960145]

>tfw you'll never spend months bumming around Italy, just basking in the sunshine and drinking wine in quant country towns

[Anonymous No.19960474]

>>19960131
Visual arts don't always have to be accurate if you don't notice the inaccuracy (sculpture especially).

[Anonymous No.19960589]

>>19960474
That's true.