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Visual Design and User-Interface Development Category Posts

Italian Shadows (Mellon Publication Project)

Written by Brown University Italian Studies scholar, Massimo Riva, Italian Shadows conceives of an archaeology of virtual reality through a set of unique optical devices from the pre-digital age. Focusing on four curious pieces of analog media—including Casanova’s voyeuristic polemoscope (or jealousy glass); an eighteenth century peep show box, the Mondo Novo; the Great Belzoni’s Aggrescopius, Italian Shadows (Mellon Publication Project)

Garibaldi Panorama: Visualizing the Risorgimento

Garibaldi Panorama: Visualizing the Risorgimento A mid-19th century panorama painted in England, and illustrations from British, French, and German newspapers (c. 1850-1885) regarding Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807-1882), the military leader of the Italian Risorgimento, and his career. The Garibaldi Panorama and the Risorgimento project provides a comprehensive resource for the interdisciplinary study and teaching of the Garibaldi Panorama: Visualizing the Risorgimento