Reis-Impressies

Couperus writes as though painting with language, and these travel impressions thrum with the particular beauty of late 19th-century Italian light. He opens in the Uffizi before Simone Martini's Annunciation, dissolving the distance between viewer and canvas until the angel's message seems meant for you, too. From Florence, the collection wanders through Rome's animated streets, the Pincio humming with vendors and models, capturing a world where antiquity hasn't yet surrendered to modernity. These aren't guidebooks. They're love letters to places that taught Europe how to see.