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Atlas and Hercules in the garden : scientific culture and literary imagination at the Villa Aldobrandini at Frascati
(Brill Academic Publishers, 2015-01-01)
This essay explores the interplay in early modern Roman gardens between the iconography of instruments and fountains and scientific culture, especially astronomy. Examining the sundials that adorned the garden at the Villa ...
Regurgitating Nature: On a Celebrated Anecdote by Karel van Mander about Pieter Bruegel the Elder
(2016)
The curious anecdote in Karel van Mander’s biography of Bruegel, where the artist is said to have swallowed all the mountains and rocks during his crossing of the Alps and spat them out again onto canvas and panels upon ...
La villa Montalto et l'idéal rustique de Sixte Quint
The villa Montalto and the pastoral ideal of Sixtus V
(2011-07)
Constructed, beginning in 1576 by the architect Domenico Fontana, the Villa Montalto, named after the Cardinal Felice Peretti Montalto, was for a long rime described as having surpassed the splendor of all the villas in ...
Landscape all'Antica and Topographical Anachronism in Roman Fresco Painting of the Sixteenth Century
(2008)
Anachronistic topographical landscapes of the 16th century can be understood as “symptoms” of a “way of seeing” affected by the human psyche and by memory. Many topographical landscapes all'antica in fresco paintings of ...
Artiste ou espion ? Dessiner le paysage dans l’Italie du XVIe siècle
(2013-05)
Stories of artists who were arrested and accused of spying while drawing landscape remain relatively unknown in the history of open-air drawing in the Renaissance period, when landscape raised new aesthetic issues as well ...
Inversion comique ou critique satirique ? La vue du Capitole de Hieronymus Cock (1562)
Comical Inversion or Satirical Criticism? The "View of Capitoline," by Hieronymus Cock (1562)
(2013)
Hieronymus Cock's view of the Capitoline Hill, published in 1562 series on Roman ruins, has long been considered a useful document by historians of art and architecture for the key historical and topographical information ...