Professor Dr. Denis Ribouillault

Biography

Denis Ribouillault is a professor in the Department of Art History, Cinema, and Audiovisual Media at the Université de Montréal. He specializes in Renaissance and Baroque art in Europe, particularly in Italy, with a focus on the history of gardens and landscapes as well as urban iconography. Ribouillault has published several books examining villas and gardens in 16th-century Rome, the sacred landscape of 16th and 17th-century Europe, and the connections between painting and gardens from antiquity to the present day. Currently, he is working on monographs addressing astronomy and cosmology in garden art, a forgotten Venetian canon who created magnificent cityscapes, and the depiction of Calypso's cave in Renaissance art. He has been a faculty member since June 2011 and has previously lived in Italy as a Florence J. Gould fellow and resident at the French Academy in Rome. His teaching includes supervision of doctoral and master's theses, and he is actively involved in various research groups and initiatives in art history.

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