Biography

Min-Ling Tsai was born in Jia-Yi County, Taiwan. In 2008 she finished her doctoral degree in Art History in the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. Her research focuses on Italian Art and Art Theory of Cinque- and Seicento. Since 2008 she has been Assistant Professor in the department of Art History at the Tainan National University of the Arts. She collaborates regularly with the Chi Mei Museum, the most important collection of the western classical arts in Taiwan, which gives her the opportunity to promote the understanding and scholarship of western art, especially Italian Art before the 18th Century.

Project Summary

In this research project, based on the stylistic analysis and historical documents, the prints of Dürer and Pontormo’s paintings will be chronologically and systematically analyzed. The aim is to explore the significance and meaning of Pontormo’s inventio and imitaio, to clarify the impact of Dürer’s prints, and reveal their influence on the development of Florentine Mannerism.