Fragments of China

Lucia Caterina; Chiara Visconti

Fragments of China

Authors

Lucia Caterina

University of Naples "L'Orientale"

Chiara Visconti

University of Naples "L'Orientale"

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5402-5367

Keywords:

Museum, China, Middle East, Porcelain, art, Matteo Ripa, calligraphy

Synopsis

Publisher: UniorPress

Series: Quaderni delle Collezioni Museali de “L’Orientale”

Pages: 166

Language: Italiano

NBN: http://nbn.depositolegale.it/resolver.pl?nbn=urn:nbn:it:unina-27448

Abstract: The volume “Fragments of China” is dedicated to the Chinese section of the ‘Umberto Scerrato’ Oriental Museum of the University of Naples “L’Orientale”. It includes essays by various scholars who examine and explore topics related to the objects on display in the museum, from porcelain (Caterina) to sculpture (Visconti), from funerary art (Montella) to painting (Macrì) and calligraphy (Amitrano). The Chinese section is enriched by a unique specimen, a large map of China made by Matteo Ripa and kept at the Orientale since the foundation of the Collegio dei Cinesi (Muzzupappa).

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Author Biographies

Lucia Caterina, University of Naples "L'Orientale"

She was full professor of Archaeology and History of Chinese Art at the University of Naples “L'Orientale”. Since 2012 she has been director of the Museo Orientale 'Umberto Scerrato'. The main focus of her research is the study of East Asian art collections in Italian museums and she is the author of numerous monographs, exhibition catalogues and essays published in both national and international journals.

Chiara Visconti, University of Naples "L'Orientale"

Chiara Visconti, PhD, is a lecturer in Chinese Archaeology (BA and MA students) at the

University of Naples “L’Orientale”.

Her main research interests concern Chinese archaeology during the Tang period (618-907 AD) and contacts between Oriental Asia, Middle and Near East and Europe, with particular reference to the trade and the export of ceramics.

She participated in archaeological surveys and excavation campaigns in Nepal (site of Gotihawa), in China (site of the Fengxiansi, Longmen), in Xinjiang, and in Oman (site of Al-Baleed).