Date: 21 Feb 2025 - 21 Feb 2025

Date: Friday, 21 February 2025
Time: 12:30–2:00 p.m.
Venue: Zoom
Language: Mandarin
Speaker: Professor Ren Junwei | Research Fellow, China National Academy of Painting; Associate Professor, College of Fine Arts, Capital Normal University, Beijing
Abstract
Zha Shibiao was a prominent painter, collector and poet who lived during the Ming and Qing dynasties. It was said that ‘every family in Yangzhou owned a painting by Zha.’ Despite his fame, little is known about his life and artistic journey, with the existing art historical narratives often providing incomplete or inaccurate information, including the debated record of his death year as 1698. This lecture will provide a concise overview of the artist’s life and artistic trajectory based on the newly discovered ‘Genealogy of the Zha Family of Xiu Ning, Anhui’ and other relevant genealogies, local archives and extant artworks.
Speaker
Professor Ren Junwei is a Research Fellow at the China National Academy of Painting and an Associate Professor at the College of Fine Arts, Capital Normal University in Beijing. He obtained a Ph.D. in Fine Arts from the Nanjing Arts Institute and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Aesthetics at Peking University. He is a member of the Theoretical Art Committee of the Beijing Artists Association, the China Artists Association (Beijing), the China Calligraphers Association (CAA), and the China Literature and Art Critics Association (CLALA). His research focuses on Chinese art history of the Ming and Qing dynasties, painting and calligraphy collection and connoisseurship, and art market studies.
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