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Sundials on the Quirinal : astronomy and the Early Modern Garden
(Springer, 2016)
This paper deals with the function and meaning of sundials in Early Modern
Rome, more specifically in gardens. It concentrates on two gardens, both on the
Quirinal hill and directly facing each other: the papal gardens ...
L'artiste en Berger d'Arcadie le paysage « d'après nature» de Dürer à Poussin
(Campisano editore, 2018)
The cultural landscape of the villa in early modern Rome
(Brill, 2019)
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 ...
Toward an Archaeology of the Gaze: the Perception and Function of Garden Views in Italian Renaissance Villas
(Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2011)
Julius III’s Tower of the Winds: A Forgotten Aspect of Villa Giulia
(Villa I Tatti, 2013)