{"id":216,"date":"2025-10-14T22:44:04","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T02:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/magazine\/?p=216"},"modified":"2025-11-03T11:47:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T16:47:09","slug":"mostro-mash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/magazine\/mostro-mash\/","title":{"rendered":"Mostro mash"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"669\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/Italy-Bomarzo-Hell-Mouth-1024x669.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/Italy-Bomarzo-Hell-Mouth-1024x669.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/Italy-Bomarzo-Hell-Mouth-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/Italy-Bomarzo-Hell-Mouth-768x502.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/Italy-Bomarzo-Hell-Mouth-1536x1004.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/Italy-Bomarzo-Hell-Mouth-2048x1338.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"656\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/Archeology-magazine.jpg\" alt=\"The cover of Archeology magazine\" class=\"wp-image-218\" style=\"width:300px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/Archeology-magazine.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/Archeology-magazine-229x300.jpg 229w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Nestled between Rome and Florence, the hillside town of Bomarzo appears calm and unassuming. But down the hill, just below a Renaissance palace, appear the monsters\u2014<em>i<\/em> <em>mostri<\/em>. More than 400 years ago, artists carved beasts and mythological figures into Pier Francesco \u201cVicino\u201d Orsini\u2019s land, a 29-acre park where mystery and wonder emerge from boulders and outcroppings of Tufo stone.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This summer, those statues appeared on the cover of <em>Archaeology Magazine<\/em> for a story highlighting the research of Art History Professor John Garton<strong>. <\/strong>The glossy cover photo was taken by Garton, who is working on an international project to preserve the site. With scholar Luke Morgan of Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, Garton is co-editing a forthcoming two-volume book and leading the Digital Bomarzo Project, which uses modern imaging technology to thoroughly document the site and better identify what the original park may have been like.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;It\u2019s not the first time Garton\u2019s Bomarzo research and photos have earned a magazine feature.<em> Smithsonian<\/em> magazine covered the project last fall and explored the mysteries of the Sacro Bosco\u2014\u201ca rambling woods filled with surprises,\u201d Garton says, \u201cfrightful beasts and ancient ruins.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/Bomarzo-detail-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"A monster statue from Bomarzo Italy, the subject of professor John Garton's research.\" 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