2023-10-25 19:00:24
Published on October 25, 2023 at 9:00 p.m.
A selfie taken with a pole in front of the Trevi Fountain or the Colosseum in Rome. A panoramic photo of St. Mark’s Square in Venice. Or a video in slow motion on a Neapolitan beach. Many young tourists capture their journeys in quick succession before hopping on the flight home.
It was not always this way. The new Van Cleef & Arpels high jewelry collection reminds us that the discovery of Europe was once made through the “Grand Tour”. In the 17th and 18th centuries, wealthy aristocrats, writers and artists spent two or three years on the road broadening their cultural education. These young adults, mostly British, visited London, Paris, the Swiss Alps, then the big Italian cities to refine their knowledge of art and architecture before joining high society. Lacking a camera or smartphone, they returned home with travel notebooks filled with sketches, watercolors or drawings, illustrating the highlights of the journey.
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