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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)
Intermediality : axis of relevance
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015)
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 ...
Thumb-bangers : exploring the cultural bond between video games and heavy metal
(Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2012)
Heavy metal and video games share an almost simultaneous birth, with Black Sabbath’s debut album in 1970 and Nolan Bushnell’s Computer Space in 1971. From Judas Priest’s ‘Freewheel Burning’ music video in 1984 to Tim ...
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 ...
The Character as subjective interface
(Springer International Publishing, 2016-10-22)
This paper re-frames virtual interactive characters as " subjective interfaces " with the purpose of highlighting original affordances for interactive story-telling through conversation. This notion is theoretically unpacked ...
Toward an Archaeology of the Gaze: the Perception and Function of Garden Views in Italian Renaissance Villas
(Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2011)
Narratology
(Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2014)
This essay provides an overview of the different types of study that can be conducted when considering the narrative aspects of video game play. It contextualizes this research among the larger movements of narratology, ...
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 ...