Note on the Editor
Denis Ribouillault
is Professor of early modern art history at Université de Montréal. His research focuses on Renaissance villa culture, cultural landscapes and gardens and the intersection of art, science and literature. He is the recipient of numerous grants including a Florence J. Gould Fellowship at Villa I Tatti (2008–9), a French Academy in Rome Fellowship (2009–2011), a Dumbarton Oaks Fellowship (2017). In 2024, he was awarded the Panofsky Professorship at the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte in Munich and the Montaigne Professorship at the Université de Bordeaux. His recent books include Sacred Landscape. Landscape as Exegesis in Early Modern Europe (2011, with Michel Weemans), Rome en ses jardins. Paysage et pouvoir au XVIe siècle (2013), De la peinture au jardin (2016, with Hervé Brunon), Jardiner/Gardening (Intermediality 35 (2020)), and The Villa Barbaro at Maser. Science, Philosophy and the Family in Venetian Renaissance Art (2023).