Dr. Yanwu Wu

Forschung

Talks and Conference Presentations

• “Zodiac Localization in Medieval China”, lecture, organized by School of Art and Humanities, Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, December 2020.

• “Mercury in China: the Transcultural Journey of an Astrological Image,” lecture, organized by Institute of East Asian Art History, Heidelberg University, May 2020.

• “Cai Yuanpei and Art History,” paper presented at the Dialogue on Aesthetics and Art History, organized by School of Humanities, Tsinghua University, October 2018.

• “Persian and Indian Elements in the Images of Stellar-Deity in Tang Dynasty,” paper presented at the Young Scholars’ Forum in Chinese Studies 2018, organized by Department of Culture and Religious Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, May 2108.

• “The Oriental Features of Frescoes in Palazzo Schifanoia, Ferrara,” report at the Young Scholars’ Forum in Art History, organized by School of Humanities, Tsinghua University, October 2017.

• “Iconography of the Chinese Mercury in Boston Museum of Art,” report at the Art History Workshop of Free University Berlin, Peking University and Zhejiang University, organized by School of Humanities, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, June 2016.

• “Images of the Chinese Zodiac in the Middle Ages,” paper presented at The Third Young Scholars’ Forum in Art Studies, organized by Nanjing University of Arts, Nanjing, June 2015.

• “Chinese Stellar Deities in the Context of World Art,” paper presented at the Colloquium Ostasiatische Kunstgeschichte/East Asian Art History, organized by Kunsthistorischen Instituts der Freien Universität Berlin, June 2014.

• “Chinese Stellar Deity in the Context of World Art”, paper presented at the 3. Forum der Ostasiatischen Kunstgeschichte Universität Heidelberg, organized by Institut für Ostasiatische Kunstgeschichte und Exzellenzcluster “Asien und Europa”, Universität Heidelberg, June 2014.

• “Research on Eyes’ Color in Ni Zan,” paper presented at The 7th Chinese Higher Education Annual Congress of Art History, organized by Department of Art History, Xi’an Academy of Art, Xi’an, October 2013.

• “Exchange and Transformation: Ming Dynasty Export Porcelains as a Medium in-between Chinese and European Painting,” paper presented at The Italian Renaissance in China: New Research by Chinese Scholars, organized by Villa I Tatti, Harvard Center Shanghai, October 2013.

• “Looking at the Overlooked: Some Chinese Visual Elements in Western Art History,” paper presented at The 28th Annual Savah Conference: South African Visual Arts and Art History: What? How? Why?, organized by the Michaelis School of Fine Art of the University of Cape Town, Hiddingh Campus, Cape Town, September 2013.

• “Style = Idea?: Review on ‘Patten and Person’ by Marin Powers,” paper presented at The Second Young Scholars’ Forum in Art Studies, organized by Nanjing University of Arts, Nanjing, June 2013.

• “Functions of The Divine Forms of the Five Planets and the Twenty-eight Lunar Mansions,” paper presented at Logic of Image: The Third International Graduate Symposium of Art History, Peking University, organized by Department of Art History, School of Arts, Peking University, October 2012.

• “East Encounters West in Astrology: the Origin of the Images of Chinese horoscope Gods,” Poster at the CIHA 2012 – The Challenge of the Object/ Die Herausforderung des Objekts. 33rd Congress of the International Committee of the History of Art, Nuremberg, 15-20 July 2012.

• “Exchange and Transformation: Ming Dynasty Export Porcelains as a Medium in-between Chinese and European Painting,” paper presented at Travels, Encounters and Exchange in the Arts of East Asia and Europe around 1500, Gemeinsamer Workshop des Kunsthistorischen Instituts der Freien Universität Berlin mit der School of Arts der Peking-Universität, organized by Kunsthistorischen Instituts der Freien Universität Berlin, July 2012.

• “The Significance of Gombrich to Chinese Art History,” paper presented at Art and Scholarship: the Intellectual World of E. H. Gombrich, organized by School of the Humanities, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, November 2011.

• “The Origins of the Images of Twenty-eight Lunar Mansions,” paper presented at The 4th Chinese Higher Education Annual Congress of Art History, organized by School of Fine Arts, Shanghai University, Shanghai, September 2010.

• “A Study of Daoist Statues in Tongxuan Temple of the Southern Song Dynasty,” paper presented at Homage to Laozi: the First International Symposium of Taoist Art in China, organized by Xi’an Academy of Fine Arts and Peking University, Xi’an, May 2007.