BOOK PROJECT: "How to See Rome: Media, Technology, Tourism, and the View from the Capitoline Hill." From the 15th-18th centuries, perceptions of Rome, the cityscape, and its monuments were shaped by new mass media and tourism.
These representations fabricated and standardized new ways of understanding and experiencing urban space from historical, scientific, aesthetic, and tourist perspectives.
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"The Colosseum, whose very name suggests the monumentality of ancient artifacts, becomes an ashtray...."
from "Reproduction, Fragmentation, and Collection: Rome and the Origin of Souvenirs" in
Architecture and Tourism: Perception, Performance and Place
PRINCETON: Italian Renaissance Painting & Scultpure | Renaissance and Baroque Architecture | Renaissance Technology and the Imaging of Nature
 CORNELL:
Destination Rome: From Medieval Pilgrimage to 18th-Century Grand Tour
Renaissance & Baroque | Modern Era |
The Printed Image: The World on Paper | Art & Exploration, 1492-1750
UNC Rome: Pilgrimage & Tourism
WEB DESIGN Christian Kracht | Grand Tour Exhibitions, Getty Museum
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"European Wonders at the Court of Siam," looks at the encounter of Siamese and Europeans through the practice of collecting-- not only the acquisition of objects but of the ritualized reaction of wonder that was part of the European experience of the exotic. For the conference
"Collecting Across Cultures in Early Modern Europe," USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute, San Marino, California, May 2007.
"The Spectacle of Animals in Renaissance Science,"
panel on "Canines and Felines in Renaissance Art, History, and Literature," Renaissance Society of American Annual Meeting, Miami, March 2007.
CAA {2005} :
"Observation, Illustration, and Visual Authority in the Scientific Revolution," for session on
"Art, Science, and the Forging of Disciplines in Seventeenth-Century Italy"
BLOG
entry "A Sensational and Sentimental Rhino," for Oudry's Painted Menagerie, Getty Museum ... In the 1740s Clara the rhinoceros sailed from India into the Age of Reason ...
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