“Fragmented Impressionism and the Visual Translatio of History in the Literary and Artistic Experiments of the Romantic Castle” in Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics 48.3 (2025): 95-108.

By adopting a histoire croisée perspective that expands the framework of binational trajectories in culture transfer studies, the essay charts the artistic practices and formations irradiating from the new formalization of philological studies in the second half of the eighteenth century. More specifically, it discusses the space of the medieval castle in late eighteenth-century literature (namely Ann Radcliffe’s Mysteries of Udolpho) and nineteenth-century architecture (the palaces of Potsdam and Sintra), to chart the reimagined geography of artistic taste through the artistic projects sponsored by a diasporic, interrelated aristocratic community. The paper argues that the space of the castle constitutes a site of emergence of a new (counter) aesthetics of fragmentation undermining the conventions of figurative representation as well as questioning the painterly, rhetorical construction of vision and representation