Meet the Participants in the 2015 Summer Seminar for Chinese Scholars

June 10, 2015
Meet the Participants in the 2015 Summer Seminar for Chinese Scholars

2015年中国学者暑期研讨班参与者名单公布Villa I Tatti is pleased to announce the participants in the Summer Seminar in Florence on “Understanding Space in Renaissance Italy.”  The seminar (27 June to 18 July 2015) focuses on the meaning and function of space in art, architecture, and urban infrastructures in Renaissance Italy, and especially in Florence (c. 1300-1600). Space has emerged in recent scholarship on the arts in the Early Modern period as crucial for understanding the relationship between objects and their contemporary viewers. Florence is ideal for such a seminar, for both its remarkable surviving fabric and the rich body of related scholarship. Site visits are selected and arranged as “walks” so as to allow themes to emerge from the experience of moving from one place to another. The format also provides opportunities for detailed examination of a small number of specific architectural monuments, as well as the works of art within each monument.

Each week, the twelve participants will meet in Florence for three days to study in museums, churches, piazzas, and monuments, and at I Tatti for two days to attend lectures, participate in discussions, and carry out individual research in the Berenson Library. In mid October 14, scholars will meet in China to give presentations related to their work and experience in Florence. Following this meeting, seminar participants will attend a conference dedicated to the Italian Renaissance, co-organized by I Tatti: The Italian Renaissance and Chinese Receptions.

In both Italy and China, participants will receive funding for transportation, lodging, and meals thanks to generous support from the Getty Foundation through their Connecting Art Histories initiative.

 

The seminar is organized and staffed by scholars associated with I Tatti and Harvard University; most were trained in Europe and/or the US. The co-directors are Jonathan Nelson (Assistant Director for Academic Programs, Villa I Tatti) and Fabrizio Nevola (Chair of Art History, University of Exeter, UK). Lectures will be given by Eugene Wang (Professor of Asian Art, Harvard University) and several other scholars associated with I Tatti. The seminar aims to facilitate dialogue between participants, lecturers, and I Tatti appointees, and to enrich and strengthen the study of the Italian Renaissance in China. The Chinese participants are listed below.

     

CHANG, Ya-Ting

Ya-Ting Chang is a PhD candidate in Art History at the National Taiwan Normal University of Fine Art in Taiwan.  Her research is the ongoing study on the subject of "modes of dissemination", which began with her M.A.  During the doctoral work, her focus has shifted from the study of relationships between the audience and contemporary artworks to the interpretive side: the methods by which historians interpret art, in particular how works can be interpreted by means of dialectical thinking.  Her main research focus is Daniel Arasse.  Arasse was a French art historian and his research mainly involved paintings, particularly from the period of Italian Renaissance.

張雅婷，目前在台灣師範大學美術系攻讀藝術史博士。她的碩士論文關注於當代藝術場域與觀眾溝通經驗。博士班期間，她的研究興趣由觀者端轉向詮釋端—藝術史學研究方法，其中包含藝術史學家如何詮釋藝術作品，以及理論辯證的表述方式。法國藝術史學家Daniel Arasse是她的主要研究對象。 Arasse的研究以繪畫為主，尤其是義大利文藝復興時期的作品。

 

 

 

 

 

 

DU, Jiafeng
Jiafeng Du is a PhD candidate in the World History at the Peking University, where he researches Florentine political culture. His PhD dissertation explores the conflict between the family polity and the Christian republican polity in Savonarola's reform at the end of 15th century, and analyzes the collision and mix of these different political traditions. Other research topics include the methods of preaching in the 15th century and the influence of urban public construction on the development of public faith.
杜佳峰，目前在北京大学就读世界史博士。他主要从事佛罗伦萨政治文化的研究。其博士论文研究15世纪末萨伏纳罗拉改革中，佛罗伦萨发生的传统家族政治与新生基督教共和政治之间的交锋，集中讨论这两种政治传统间的碰撞和融合。其他研究方向包括15世纪的布道方式、城市公共建筑对市民宗教信仰发展的影响。


 

HAN, Weihua

 

Weihua Han received his Ph.D in the History Department at Peking University & École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. Since 2010, he has been teaching "European Cultural History'' and ''History of Western Political Thought'' in the School of Government of Nanjing University. His current research focuses on the history of art, especially on the Italian Renaissance art. His latest published article is  ‘‘The Greek Philosophers in the Vatican: The relation between Art and Religion in Renaissance Italy through Raphael's ‘School of Athens’"(May 2014).

 韩伟华在北京大学历史学系和法国社会科学高等研究院政治学研究中心获得博士学位。自2010年起任教于南京大学政府管理学院，讲授欧洲文化史、西方政治思想史等课程。他目前的研究兴趣集中在欧洲艺术史尤其是意大利文艺复兴时代的艺术史。其最近发表的文章题为《罗马教廷中的希腊哲人：从<雅典学园>透视文艺复兴时代艺术与宗教之关系》(2014年5月)。


 
 
HUANG, Xiaoyin

Xiaoyin Huang is Associate Professor of Art History at the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts (GAFA). She received her doctorate from Queen’s University (Canada) in 2013 with a dissertation on Francesco Salviati’s portraits.  At GAFA, she teaches a survey course on Renaissance art and an upper-year seminar on Michelangelo. Her current research interests include Renaissance court culture, fashion and portraiture, as well as artistic exchanges between China and Italy in the Early Modern period.

黄小茵，广州美术学院艺术与人文学院副教授。2013年，凭借其关于弗朗切斯科·萨尔维亚蒂肖像作品的论文获得加拿大女皇大学博士学位。现执教于广州美术学院，教授《文艺复兴艺术与文化导论》和《米开朗基罗》等课程。目前的研究兴趣包括文艺复兴时期的宫廷文化、肖像与服饰和近代早期意大利与中国之间的艺术交流。


 

HUANG, Yue
Yue Huang is a PhD candidate in world history department of Shanghai Normal University. She is currently researching the field of thought and culture in renaissance Italy, mainly focusing on Pope Pius II and the Piccolomini family. Her dissertation is dedicated to the interpretation of cultural characteristics related to the humanist Pope Pius II, focusing on his Commentaries. In addition, she studies Pope Pius II’s plan to transform his village into a town (Pienza), with special attention to a series of political, economical,and social compromises brought about by the reconstruction.
 
 
黄越，目前为上海师范大学世界史专业在读博士生。她的研究方向为意大利文艺复兴时期的思想文化，主要集中在教皇庇护二世以及皮克罗米尼家族上面。她的博士论文以《教皇见闻录》为文本对象，试图对文艺复兴时期的人文主义教皇庇护二世的生活进行文化特征方面的解读。此外，她还对对庇护二世的家乡改造计划以及工程背后的一系列政治经济活动有深入研究。


 
JIAO, Lin

Lin Jiao is a PhD candidate in Art History at the Central Academy of Fine Art of China. She focuses on the comparative study of patron images in religious art. She investigates the questions of  the differences in the concept of “self-image” between Eastern and Western art, in addition to how individual patron styles were adopted by people from varied social levels throughout different spaces, and how alterations in the details of patron images can be explained by specific contexts of demand.

焦琳目前在中国中央美术学院就读艺术史博士。她的研究集中在宗教语境下的赞助人形象比较研究。她的研究阐明中西对于“像”概念的差异及不同的表达，以及不同阶层对于赞助人像的接受及在不同语境下的调整。

 




 

LIN, Chengwen

Chengwen Lin is a PhD candidate at the Art Institute of Nanjing University. She is particularly interested in the history of Western art and culture. Her current research focuses on the theories of art history from the Renaissance until the twentieth century. Her PhD dissertation is dedicated to art theories in the Renaissance, exploring how certain cultural and social conditions influenced their formation and development.  

林成文是南京大学艺术研究院的博士候选人。她的学术兴趣包括西方艺术史和思想文化史，目前主要从事文艺复兴至二十世纪的西方艺术史理论的研究。她的博士论文以文艺复兴时期的艺术理论为主要议题，探讨其形成、发展与这一时期的思想文化以及社会环境之间的联系。



 
LIU, Xiangjuan
Xiangjuan Liu works on the Art Historiography and critical methodology of Visual Culture and Design History. She obtained a master’s degree (2005) from Tsinghua University with a dissertation on modern Chinese sculpture. She obtained a doctoral degree (2014) from Shanghai University with a dissertation on the social history of Art. Now her main research focuses on exploring the Renaissance Visual culture by using the methodologies of New Art History. She has published articles on the social history of art, new art history, handicraft, and design. Currently she is a lecturer in the department of art history, Shanghai University, and the editor of an art magazine.
 刘向娟，主要从事艺术史方法论、视觉文化以及设计史方面的研究。2005年，她凭借其在中国当代雕塑现象研究方面的论文获得清华大学美术史硕士学位。2014年，她凭借其在社会艺术史研究方面的论文获得博士学位。她现阶段的主要研究兴趣在于利用新艺术史方法对文艺复兴的视觉文化进行探索。她发表多篇关于社会艺术史、新艺术史、手工艺和设计等方面的论文。目前，她任职于上海大学艺术史系，同时也是一本艺术杂志的编辑。


 
 
PENG, Yun

Yun Peng mainly works on Western art history and methodology. She is a PhD candidate in Art History at the Central Academy of Fine Art of China, and is also an assistant researcher in the Journal Editorial Department of CAFA. Her PhD dissertation is dedicated to the Renaissance perspective, focusing on the cultural conditions and concept evolution of this discourse paradigm, and the issues of culture, society and power behind it.

彭筠，主要从事西方艺术史及方法论的研究工作。目前，她在中央美术学院攻读艺术史博士学位，同时也是中央美术学院学报编辑部的助理研究员。她的博士论文主要涉及文艺复兴透视法相关问题的研究，集中讨论这一话语范式的生成条件与观念嬗变，及其背后的文化、社会及权力问题。


 

TSANG, Sze Hoi

Sze Hoi Tsang received his Ph.D. in the Advanced School of Art and Humanities, China Academy of Art. He is currently responsible for the E.H. Gombrich Memorial Library and James Cahill Memorial Library. He is interested in art and connoisseurship in Renaissance and ancient China as well as how Art and Culture serve as forms of communication between China and the Western World. 

曾四凯个人简介

曾四凯（中国美术学院贡布里希纪念图书馆和高居翰纪念图书馆） 经历：曾四凯于中国美术学院艺术人文学院师从著名学者范景中教授学习中国美术史和外国美术史，并获得艺术史博士学位。毕业后留在中国美术学院贡布里希纪念图书馆工作，曾经为中国美术学院举办的国际学术研讨会“艺术与学术：恩斯特•贡布里希的知识世界”等讲座作翻译。发表过多篇有关著名鉴定家伯纳德·贝伦森与艺术鉴藏的论文及翻译文章。对中国古代以及文艺复兴的艺术与鉴藏颇为着迷，同时对中国古代与西方的艺术文化交流很感兴趣。

 

ZHANG, Chen

Chen Zhang is a PhD candidate at the Department of Art History, School of Humanities, Central Academy of Fine Arts of Beijing, majored in Visual Culture Studies and Comparison between Chinese and Western Art. His PhD dissertation is a study on western art theories of body, such as Gilles Deleuze and Michel Foucault. He aims to rethink the the relationship between body and space in Italian Renaissance in light of contemporary theories.

张晨目前是北京中央美术学院人文学院美术史系的博士研究生，研究方向为视觉文化理论研究，与中西美术比较。其博士论文主要研究西方艺术理论中的身体理论，如吉尔·德勒兹、米歇尔·福柯等，并尝试从当代理论视角出发，对意大利文艺复兴艺术中的身体与空间问题，展开新的思考。


 

 

 

ZHU, Liwen

Liwen Zhu graduated from Shanghai Normal University. Her main field of research is art history in the Italian Renaissance period, and her PhD dissertation is dedicated to Giorgio Vasari’s art theory and L'Accademia delle arti del disegno. It focused on how Vasari applied his art theory to practice by establishing the Academy. Other research interests include the art of Italian Renaissance manuscripts. She is a researcher at the Shanghai Post-urban Civilization Research Institute and is mainly engaged in projects concerning urban culture study. She is also a member of the Shanghai Artists Association.

朱立文毕业于上海师范大学，她的主要研究方向是意大利文艺复兴时期的艺术。她的博士毕业论文主要涉及乔治欧·瓦萨里的艺术理论与“迪赛诺”艺术学院。文章集中讨论了瓦萨里如何将自己的艺术理论运用到创办“迪赛诺学院”的实践运用中。她的研究兴趣还涉及文艺复兴时期的手抄本艺术。目前她在上海后城市文化研究所担任研究员，主要参与城市文化研究项目，同时她也是上海美术家协会会员。



 

   

 

 

 

SEMINAR STAFF

NELSON, Jonathan

Jonathan Nelson is Assistant Director for Academic Programs and Publications at I Tatti. In 2004 he co-authored a major monograph on Filippino Lippi, and co-curated an exhibition devoted to Botticelli and Filippino at the Palazzo Strozzi, Florence. He has also co-curated two exhibitions at the Galleria dell’Accademia in Florence: Venus and Cupid. Michelangelo and the New Ideal of Beauty (2002; this was the subject of his I Tatti fellowship the same year) and Robert Mapplethorpe: Perfection in Form. Other books include Leonardo e la reinvenzione della figura femminile  (2007) and The Patron’s Payoff: Economic Frameworks for Conspicuous Commissions in Renaissance Italy (2008). The author of numerous essays and exhibition catalogue entries, he has taught Italian Renaissance art history since 1994 at Syracuse University in Florence (currently on leave).

乔纳森·奈尔逊是塔蒂中心学术项目和出版方面的助理馆长。2004年他合著了关于菲利皮诺·利皮的一本重要专题著作。同年，他在佛罗伦萨斯特罗齐宫共同策划了一个致力于波提切利和菲莉皮诺的展览。他还在佛罗伦萨艺术学院美术馆策划了两个展览：维纳斯和丘比特：米开朗基罗与新的理想之美（2002年，这也是他同年塔蒂研究基金的主题）以及罗伯特·梅普尔索普：形式中的完美。他的其他著作包括：《莱昂纳多与女性形象的重塑》（2007年）和《赞助人的报酬：意大利文艺复兴著名艺术委托中的经济构架》（2008）。作为诸多学术论文和展览目录的作者，奈尔逊教授从1994年开始就在雪城大学佛罗伦萨分校教授意大利文艺复兴艺术史（目前休假中）.

NEVOLA, Fabrizio

Fabrizio Nevola is Chair of Art History and Visual Culture at the University of Exeter (UK). In 2007 he published Siena: Constructing the Renaissance City (Yale UP) and contributed to the National Gallery exhibition catalogue Renaissance Siena: Art for a City. He is currently working on a project that considers the physical and social environment of the public space of streets in Renaissance Italy, and has published a number of articles related to this research, including the co-edited collection Experiences of the Street in Early Modern Italy in the 2013 issue of I Tatti Studies in the Italian Renaissance. Among other projects, he has created a mobile phone app that provides a mobile immersive experience of life in the Renaissance city, Hidden Florence.
He was a fellow at I Tatti in 2004-5.

法布里奇奥·涅渥拉是英国艾希特大学艺术史和视觉文化系的系主任。在2007年，他出版了《锡耶纳：构建文艺复兴之城》（耶鲁大学出版社）一书，并且为伦敦国家美术馆展览目录《锡耶纳文艺复兴：艺术的城市》一书供稿。他目前正研究的项目是关于意大利文艺复兴时期街道公共空间的物质和社会环境，并且他已发表了很多关于这个课题的论文，其中包括他共同编辑的《塔蒂研究在意大利文艺复兴》2013年一期中的《街道体验在意大利早期现代》一文。在他的诸多项目之中，他也正致力于开发一款手机软件以提供给观众一种动态的对于文艺复兴城市生活的深入体验。这款手机软件名为“隐藏的佛罗伦萨”（详见：hiddenflorence.org）。在 2004-05年，他是塔蒂的研究员。

Juliet_Strachan STRACHAN, Juliet

Juliet Strachan joined the staff of I Tatti in 2013 as the Administrative Assistant for External Relations and Development, having previously worked for the British Institute of Florence. She received a B.A in Italian Literature and History of Art from University College London, and an M.A from the University of Leicester in Interpretation, Representation and Heritage with a dissertation on  interpretive strategies applied in Florentine house museums. She is a registered freelance translator and frequently collaborates with the Museo di Storia Naturale ‘La Specola’ and the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa.

朱丽叶·斯特拉坎于2013年作为外事和发展管理助理加入了塔蒂。她曾为佛罗伦萨英国学院工作。她在伦敦大学学院获得了意大利文学和艺术史学士学位，随后她又在莱斯特大学获得阐释、表述和文化遗产的硕士学位。她的硕士论文是关于佛罗伦萨住宅美术馆中的诠释策略。她是注册的自由翻译人并且常和佛罗伦萨自然历史博物馆以及比萨高级师范学校合作.