Shadow Plays: Virtual Realities in an Analog World

Contents

Preface

1

Journey into the New World:
Tiepolo’s Cosmorama

1757–1791, Venice
2

Inside the Casotto:
Domenico Selva’s Camera Obscura

1750–1787, Venice
3

Social Voyeurism:
Goldoni’s Telescope and Casanova’s Polemoscope

1750–1791, Venice-Dux (Bohemia)
4

A Real Phantasmagoria:
The Great Belzoni’s Show

1800–1821, Padua—Rome—Egypt—London
5

History at a Glance:
The Garibaldi Panorama

Nottingham and Derby, U.K. – Sicily and Naples, Italy, 1860–63
6

Fossilized Shadows:
Italy through the Stereoscope

Venice to Sicily, circa 1900

Simulations

Mondo Nuovo Device
Mondo Nuovo Painting
Casotto / Camera Obscura
Polemoscope
Magic Lantern
Belzoni’s Real Phantasmagoria
The Garibaldi Panorama
Stereoscope