Michele Matteini

Ph.D. (2012) History of Art, Institute of Fine Arts; M.A. (2004) History of Art, New York University; B.A. (2000) summa cum laude University of Venice, Ca’ Foscari

Late Imperial (ca. 1400-1800) Chinese painting and material culture; antiquarianism and collecting culture; Qing history; urban culture and history; inter-Asian and transcontinental artistic exchanges; eighteenth-century art and globalism; craft and embodied knowledge; anthropology and art history; historiography of Chinese painting and art.

The Andrew Mellon Foundation Fellowship for Assistant Professors, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (2013-2014); Ittleson Fellowship, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art (2007-2009); Panofsky Distinguished Fellowship, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University (2002-2007).

Publications:

Painting and the World of Affairs: Luo Ping and the Culture of the Image in late Eighteenth-century China (Book Manuscript, in progress)

Forthcoming     “The Story of a Stone: Mi Fu’s Yanshan Rock and its Replications in the Eighteenth century” (Fall 2017 in Arts Asiatiques)

“Written on a Body Leaf” (under final review) Edited Volume Textual Function in East Asian Buddhism (Leiden, Brill)

The Cult of Su Shi in Eighteenth-century Beijing” (under review for Archives of Asian Art)

Kim Chŏng-hŭi’s Ink Orchid: Painting Out of Time (submitted)

“The Brush and the Needle: Juhkyang’s Painting and Courtesans’ Material Culture in Late Chosŏn Dynasty” Proceedings of the International Conference on East Asian Art, Fondazione Ambrosiana, Milan, 2016

“The Market for ‘Western Painting in Eighteenth-century Beijing: A View from Liulichang” in Michael Yonan and Stacey Sloboda eds. Eighteenth-Century Art Worlds: A Global Geography of Art (Thames and Hudson) (September 2017)

2016                          “The Antiquarian Imagination in Eighteenth-century Chinese and Korean Painting” Proceedings of the International Conference on East Asian Art, Milan, Fondazione Biblioteca Ambrosiana

2015                          Review of Kristina Kleugthen’s Imperial Illusions: Crossing Pictorial Boundaries in Late Imperial China CAA Reviews Online

                                    “Form as Movement” Special Issue of Open/Set (September)

2014                          “Place and Personality: Ling Xia’s Song of the Eight Eccentrics of                                                        

Yangzhou (Yangzhou ba guai ge, ca. 1897)” in Yangzhou, A Place in Literature:  The Local in Chinese Cultural History (University of Hawai’i Press, 2015), pp. 273- 281

 “China: Empire of Things” Journal of Art Historiography, no. 11 (December 2014)

2013                          “Filial Painting” and entry on Luo Ping’s Album of Plum Blossoms, Catalog of the Chinese    Painting Collection of the Seattle Art Museum, edited by Josh Yu

2009                           Eccentric Visions: The Worlds of Luo Ping

Essay on Luo Ping’s late production (ca. 1770-1799) and extended entries on paintings from 1770-1790s

 “On Huineng’s ‘True Body’: The Matter of the Sacred” RES: Anthropology and Aesthetic, no. 55/56

2007                           “Luoghi, momenti e occasioni della pittura alla corte di Qianlong” and extended entries for all paintings and calligraphy in Nicoletta Celli, “Capolavori dalla Città Proibita: Qianlong e la sua corte”

2005                          “’What the Master did not Discuss.” Self-Mutilation, the Female Body, and Filial Expectations in Early Modern China” Asiatica Venetiana, vol. 8/9