Biography

Chen Liu teaches at Tsinghua University (Beijing), where she received her Bachelor of Architecture with Honors. In 2000, she received a Master of architecture and Urban Planning from University of Maryland, then practiced as an architect in Washington DC until 2005. She received her PhD in 2011 from Princeton University, studying Renaissance and Baroque art and architecture under the direction of John Pinto. From 2010 to 2011, she was a Fellow at the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome, where she completed her dissertation titled “Between Perception and Expression: the Codex Coner and the Genre of Architectural Sketchbooks”.

Project Summary

China’s time-honoured literati tradition has nourished art creators, connoisseurs and historians. This research project concerns the reception and interpretation of the Renaissance outside the Western tradition. In particular, it examines a twentieth-century response to the Renaissance by Chinese scholars, whose collective endeavours to transmit Renaissance concepts largely influenced the intellectual and artistic life of China.