Lecture with Wang Hao
Lecture with researcher in residence, Wang Hao: Clothing the Sacred: Christian Imagery on Qing Export Porcelain
Wang Hao’s research examines how Chinese drapery conventions were reconfigured on Qing export porcelain depicting Christian subjects, drawing on the Albuquerque Foundation collection. It argues that the clothing of sacred figures functioned as a visual interface where Chinese linear traditions and European pictorial idioms, particularly those mediated by copperplate engraving, continuously negotiated with one another.
By tracing a gradual shift from linear to volumetric modes of depiction across the Kangxi–Qianlong period, the study treats painted drapery on porcelain as a site of cross-media translation and mutual negotiation, contributing to current discussions in global art history and the iconography of Sino-European visual exchange.
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About Wang Hao
Wang Hao is currently a PhD student at the Department of Asian Studies, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana. His doctoral research focuses on the intersection of Western and East Asian art history, with a particular emphasis on missionary collections of material culture in early twentieth-century Slovenia, their processes of institutionalization, and the reciprocal shaping of Eastern and Western cultural concepts.
His MA research at Shanghai University focused on Western art historiography, specifically Panofsky’s iconographic method. His doctoral work builds on these analytical approaches, applying them to transcultural material culture.
