Sabrina RASTELLI

PERSONAL INFORMATION

 

Sabrina RASTELLI, PhD

Full Professor of Chinese Art and Archaeology

Academic Group 10/ASIA-01, Academic Discipline ASIA-01/E (Archaeology, art history, religions and philosophy of East and South-East Asia)

 

Ca’ Foscari University

Department of Asian and North African Studies

Dorsoduro 1686

30123 Venice, Italy

Tel. +39 041 234 9511

E-mail: rastelli@unive.it

http://www.unive.it/data/persone/5592851

 

EDUCATION

2002   PhD, Doctor of Philosophy in Chinese Art and Archaeology, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Thesis title: The Yaozhou kilns: a re-evaluation. Supervisor: Professor Roderick Whitfield.

1993   Laurea (equivalent to Master’s degree) in Foreign Languages and Literatures (Chinese), Ca’ Foscari University Venice, with a thesis on Cizhou ware, supervisor: Professor Giancarlo Calza.

 

CURRENT AND PREVIOUS POSITIONS

2021- Full Professor, Chinese Art and Archaeology, Ca’ Foscari University Venice.

2010-2021 Associate Professor, Chinese Art and Archaeology, Ca’ Foscari University Venice.

2007-2010: Lecturer in Chinese Art and Archaeology, Ca’ Foscari University Venice.

2004-2005: Lecturer in Japanese Art and Archaeology, Ca’ Foscari University Venice.

1999-2006: Lecturer in Chinese Art and Archaeology, Ca’ Foscari University Venice.

1998-99: Course tutor, Chinese ceramics module, MA course, SOAS, University of London.

 

RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

Over the years, research has developed along three main lines:

1. The history of ancient Chinese ceramics. My research into the history of ancient Chinese ceramics adopts a rigorous archaeological and technical methodology, focusing on the reconstruction of manufacturing processes to define the material and visual identity of the wares. This approach has fundamentally challenged the prevailing scholarly consensus regarding the Jin dynasty, demonstrating that—contrary to long-standing narrative—it was a period of significant industrial vitality rather than decline. My work integrates textual sources from the 10th to the 20th century to deconstruct modern academic clichés and explore the under-researched aesthetic paradigms of the Song-Jin-Yuan transition. Most recently I have started to concentrate on what I have defined “the signature product” of kilns active between the 10th and the 14th century and the close connections among them. 

2. Chinese art in context. I have elaborated a revised narrative of Chinese art history, grounded in the systematic socio-cultural re-contextualisation of artworks. This methodology aims to broaden the discipline by transcending both restrictive Western-centric canons and isolationist Sinocentric perspectives, which often overlook the dynamic intersections between Chinese culture and other civilisations. The results of this historiographical shift are presented in the first of two comprehensive volumes on Chinese art, published by Einaudi. 

3. Modern and contemporary. Between 2016 and 2021, I served as Consultant and Coordinator for the Treccani Encyclopaedia of Contemporary Art, directing a major research initiative into the modern and contemporary art of the PRC, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. Managing a team of twelve specialists, I oversaw the production of 273 scholarly entries. This research trajectory subsequently informed the development of a dedicated postgraduate module—within the Master’s degree programme—focused on the influence of traditional aesthetics on contemporary artistic practices.

 

Organisation, management and coordination of, or participation in, national and international research groups; management of highly qualified international research bodies or institutes

 

Ø  2021 (ongoing): Member of the International Advisory Board for the new Slovenian National Project on East Asian collections and objects.

 

Ø  2021-23: invited by Southeast University of Nanjing, School of Art, to join the group of foreign experts for joint research projects with SEU colleagues (SEU is one of 36 Chinese Class A universities within the Ministry of Education's Double First Class Universities Plan).

 

Ø  2018-23: Member of the Network of Chinese Collections in Europe.

 

Ø  2016-2021: Consultant and coordinator for the Treccani Encyclopaedia of Contemporary Art for the China area (PRC, Hong Kong and Taiwan); 12 contributors for a total of 273 entries.

 

Ø  PRIN (Research Projects of National Interest) call for proposals 2022: component of the Main Unit (Ca’ Foscari University Venice), project title: Chinese narratives and the narration of China in Italy: literature, cinema and art at the intersection of cultural diplomacy and cultural industry, funded.

 

Ø  PRIN (Research Projects of National Interest) call for proposals: component of the Main Unit (Ca’ Foscari University Venice), project title: Dystopias, Utopias, and Heterotopias: Envisioning the Future in Contemporary Chinese Society and Culture; not funded (despite the positive evaluation).

 

Ø  PRIN (Research Projects of National Interest) call for proposals 2012: component of the Venice Ca' Foscari Unit, project title: Italy and Asia in the mirror. Exchanges, models and representations in the development of relations between Italy and Asian countries; not funded.

 

 

Organisation of and participation as a speaker in national and international congresses and conferences

 

Ø  2022 (October 25): international symposium Vivid Transparencies. Yaozhou Ceramics from the Shang Shan Tang Collection, presentation title “From fame to oblivion to re-evaluation: the surprising trajectory of the Yaozhou kilns”.

 

Ø  2021 (November 16): European Association for Asian Art and Archaeology Online Panels 2021, panel title: “New Views in Korean Art / Studies in Chinese Archaeology and Museology”; presentation title “The polyhedral and elusive nature of Geyao”.

 

Ø  2019 (November 16-17): International Symposium on Longquan and Globalization, presentation title: “The multi-faceted and elusive nature of Geyao”.

 

Ø  2019 (September 19): international symposium From Centre to Periphery: Collecting Chinese Objects in Comparative Perspective, Slovene Ethnographic Museum, Ljubljana; presentation title: “Great Personalities and East Asian Collections in Italy”.

 

Ø  2018 (December 13-14): organization of and opening speech at the international symposium Sogdians and their Funerary Monuments in Sixth to Seventh-Century China: New Thoughts and Reflections, Ca’ Foscari.

 

Ø  2018 (August 29 – September 1): 21st Conference of the European Association for Chinese Studies (EACS 2018), Glasgow; presentation title: “Chinese porcelain in the Bardi collection, Venice”.

 

Ø  2017 (October 27-29): opening speech at the International Symposium on Art and Translation: Taiwan, Hong Kong and Korea, Edinburgh College of Art, The University of Edinburgh; presentation title: “In memory of Felix Schoeber”.

 

Ø  2016 (October): IX Dies Academicus, Classe di Studi sull’Estremo Oriente, Academia Ambrosiana, Milano; presentation title: “Una nuova storia della storia dell’arte cinese [A new history of Chinese art history]”.

 

Ø  2015 (October 23-24): International Symposium on Science and Technology of Five Great Wares of the Song Dynasty, Gugong, Beijing; presentation title: “The concept of the five famous wares of the Song dynasty: exegesis of Chinese and western literary sources”.

 

Ø  2014 (October): VII Dies Academicus, Classe di Studi sull’Estremo Oriente, Accademia Ambrosiana, Milano; presentation title: “Ceramica Song (960-1279): estetica, teorie e scoperte archeologiche [Song ceramics (960-1279): aesthetics, theories and archaeological discoveries]”.

 

Ø  2014 (September): 1st conference of the European Association for Asian Art and Archaeology (EAAA), Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic; presentation title: “Redefining Song ceramics in the light of recent archaeological finds”.

 

Ø  2014 (July): 19th conference of the European Association for Chinese Studies (EACS 2014), Braga and Coimbra, Portugal; presentation title: “Acknowledging ceramic manufacture of the Jin dynasty (1126-1234)”.

 

Ø  2013 (September 19-21): XIV Convegno dell’Associazione Italiana di Studi Cinesi (AISC), Procida; presentation title: “Jin ceramic production”.

 

Ø  2012 (December 13-15): Homage to Tradition: a Symposium on East Asian Art in Honour of Professor Roderick Whitfiled, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong; presentation title: “Song ceramics and archaeological discoveries: a new story”.

 

Ø  2008 (May 8): Buddhismo di epoca Tang. Tradizione ed eredità, Gabinetto G. P. Vieusseux "VieusseuxAsia" in collaboration with Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Firenze; presentation title: “Arte buddhista nella mostra ‘Alla corte degli Imperatori. Capolavori mai visti. Dalla tradizione Han all’eleganza Tang (25-907)’ [Buddhist art in the exhibition 'At the Court of the Emperors. Unseen Masterpieces. From Han tradition to Tang elegance (25-907)']”.

 

Ø  2006 (November 4-9): 2006 Annual Conference of the Chinese Society for Ancient Ceramics & Symposium on Chinese Celadon in Nanjing, Nanjing, China; title of the presentation prepared with Nigel Wood: “Some problems with Di ware”.

 

Ø  2005 (March 10-12): X Convegno dell’Associazione Italiana di Studi Cinesi (AISC), Venezia, presentation title: “Le ceramiche di Yaozhou nel periodo Jin: declino o adattamento? [Yaozhou ceramics in the Jin period: decline or adaptation?]”.

 

Ø  2005 (November 1-4): 2005 International Symposium on Ancient Ceramics - Its Scientific and Technological Insights (ISAC ’05), Shanghai; title of the presentation prepared with Nigel wood and Chris Doherty: “Some aspects of Yue ware production at Shanglinhu in the late Tang dynasty”.

 

Ø  2004 (November): Yaozhou International Symposium, Yaoxian, Shaanxi province; presentation title: “金代真的是耀州窑的衰退期吗？ (Jin dai zhende shi Yaozhou yao shuaitui qi ma? Was the Jin dynasty really a period of decline for the Yaozhou kilns?)”.

 

Ø  2003 (June 16-18): Song ceramics. Art history, archaeology and technology, Colloquies on Art and Archaeology no. 22, London, Percival David Foundation; title of the presentation prepared with Nigel Wood and Chris Doherty: “Early Yaozhou celadon – a true ancestor to Southern Song Guan ware?”.

 

Ø  2002: 2002 International Symposium on Ancient Ceramics - Its Scientific and Technological Insights (ISAC ’02), Shanghai; title of the presentation prepared with Nigel wood and Chris Doherty: “Technological development at the Huangbao kiln site, Yaozhou, in the 9th to 11th centuries AD – Some analytical and microstructural examination”.

 

Ø  2002: International symposium on Southern Song Laohudong Guan ware, Hangzhou, China; title of the presentation prepared with Nigel Wood and Chris Doherty: “早期耀州青瓷和南宋老虎洞窑 的技术关系(Zaoqi Yaozhou qingci he Nan Song Laohudongyao de jishu guanxi Technological relations between Yaozhou green ware and Southern Song Laohudong wares)”.

 

Ø  2000: VIII Convegno dell’Associazione Italiani di Studi Cinesi (AISC), Lecce; presentation title: “Protoporcellana, celadon primitivo, terracotta invetriata o l’invenzione del grès [Protoporcelain, primitive celadon, glazed earthenware or the invention of stoneware]”.

 

Ø  2000: 13th conference of the European Association for Chinese Studies (EACS 2000), Torino; presentation title: “Chang'an and Yaozhou: the influence of the capital on the development of northern celadon”.

 

Lectures by invitation:

 

Ø  2025 (December 11): Centre de Recherche sur l’Extrême-Orient de Paris Sorbonne (CREAOPS), Sorbonne Université, “Archaeology of Chinese ceramics: the Yaozhou kiln as a study case”

 

Ø  2025 (November 11): The Oriental Ceramic Society, London, “Challenges and solutions:

the ingenuity of the Yaozhou potters”

 

Ø  2024 (November 28): Ludwig Maximilians Universität (LMU) München, “The mechanics of change: the aesthetics of Chinese ceramics in the Northern Song and early Jin dynasties”

 

Ø  2024 (October 20): South-East Asian Ceramic Society, Singapore, “The five famous wares of the Song dynasty: According to whom?”

 

Ø  2024 (January 9): Oriental Ceramic Society of Hong Kong, presentation title “The mechanics of change: the aesthetics of Chinese ceramics in the Northern Song and early Jin dynasties”

 

Ø  2023 (December 15): The Society for Chinese Ceramic Study, Singapore, presentation title “Achievements of the Yaozhou kilns: revelations from archaeological investigations”

 

Ø  2023 (December 11): The Society for Chinese Ceramic Study, Singapore, presentation title “Aesthetics in Chinese ceramics of the Northern Song (960-1127) and Jin (1115-1234) dynasties”

 

Ø  2023 (November 28): Institute of Chinese Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, presentation title “The mechanics of change: ceramics and their aesthetics in the 10th and 11th centuries”

 

Ø  2022 (January 13): Société Française d' Études de la Céramique Orientale, presentation title “Re-emerging from underground: The great achievements of the Yaozhou kilns through their archaeological investigation”.

 

Ø  2020 (December 11): public lecture at the Zürich Universität, Kunsthistorische Institute, lecture title: “The mechanics of change: the aesthetics of Chinese ceramics in the Northern Song (960-1127) and early Jin (1127-1234) dynasties”.

 

Ø  2019 (November 4): Jingdezhen Ceramic University, lecture title: “The influence of Chinese porcelain in Renaissance Florence”.

 

Ø  2019 (May 10): in conversation with Wu Hongliang, curator of the PRC Pavilion at the 58a Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte della Biennale di Venezia; title of the presentation by Wu Hongliang: “回——从艺术的寻根中探求未来. ‘Re - 睿’: Exploring the Future from the Origin of Art”.

 

Ø  2019 (April 3): Peking University, School of Arts, lecture title: “西方的中国艺术史研究：语境再造的方法 Western Chinese art history: the re-contextualization method”.

 

Ø  2019 (April 15): Tsinghua University, Philosophy Department, lecture title: “佛罗伦萨文艺复兴时期的青花瓷 (Foluolunsa Wenyi Fuxing shiqi de qinghuaci. Blue and white porcelain of the Renaissance period in Florence)”.

 

Ø  2019 (April 16): Peking University, Department of Archaeology, lecture title: “The influence of Chinese blue and white porcelain on ceramic production in Renaissance Florence - the cases of Montelupo, Cafaggiolo and the Medici porcelain”.

 

Ø  2018 (January 12): The British Museum, lecture title:  “The concept of the five famous wares of the Song dynasty: a modern idea”.

 

Ø  2018 (September 28): History of Art Research Seminar, Edinburgh College of Art, The University of Edinburgh; lecture title: “A new history of Chinese art history: new research methods”.

 

Ø  2014 (April 16) Università degli Studi di Napoli «L’Orientale», Archaeology of the Silk Roads: Routes, Images and Material Culture (3rd series); lecture title: “Immagini e Sepolture dalle Vie della Seta: i mercanti Sogdiani in Cina [Images and Burials from the Silk Roads: Sogdian Merchants in China]”.

 

Ø  2014 (April 3): Università di Bologna, Dipartimento di Storia Culture Civiltà; lecture title: “La produzione ceramica durante il dominio Jurchen: prosperità o declino? [Ceramic production during Jurchen rule: prosperity or decline?]”.

 

Ø  2011 (March 22): TEC-Lab, Facoltà di scienze della comunicazione, Università della Svizzera italiana, USI e Società Ticinese di Belle Arti, Lugano; lecture title: “I cicli narrativi nelle sepolture della Cina Han (206 a.C. – 220 d.C.) [Narrative cycles in Han Chinese burials (206 BC - 220 AD)]”.

 

Ø  2010 (December 9): Università di Torino, series of conferences on classical China; lecture title: “Dal Tempio ancestrale alla dimora eterna: introduzione all’arte cinese del periodo classico [From the Ancestral Temple to the Eternal Home: An Introduction to Chinese Art of the Classical Period]”.

 

Organisation of the art workshop within the Spotlight Taiwan Project:

 

Ø  2016: Experiences of Migration - Taiwan Contemporary Arts  Research Day, guest speakers Yang Chia-ling, Chen Yu-hui, Ella Raidel.

Ø  2015: Taiwan contemporary art. Artists, groups and spaces from the post-avantgarde to the turn of the millennium, guest speakers George C. H. Hsu, Tsong Pu, Lai Chunchun, Yang Maolin, Sean Hu, Felix Schöber.

Ø  2015: Taiwan and the Venice Biennale of Art/Architecture, guest speakers Yao Jui-chung, Felix Schöber.

 

 

Curatorship and collaborations on exhibitions

 

Ø  2026: Member of the Scientific Committee of the exhibition Reframing Silk: Giacomo Caneva's photographs of the 1859 expedition to China, Museum of Oriental Art Venice, 6 February-April 2026.

 

Ø  2022: Curator of the exhibition Vivid Transparencies. Yaozhou wares from the Shang Shan Tang Collection, Museum of Oriental Art Venice, September 7- October 25, 2022.

 

Ø  2019: Curator of Yeesookyung's solo exhibition Whisper only to you, Museo Madre di Arte Contemporanea e Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte, Napoli, 11 October 2019 - 20 January 2020.

 

Ø  2018: Co-organizer (with Elena Macrì) of the exhibition Ink Raiders and related event, Magazzini del Sale, Venezia, 17-27 April 2018.

 

Ø  2016: Member of the Scientific Committee of the exhibition Dall’antica alla nuova via della seta. From the ancient to the new silk road, Palazzo del Quirinale, Roma, 6 December 2016 – 26 February 2017.

 

Ø  2010: Member of the Scientific Committee of the exhibition I due imperi. L’aquila e il dragone, Palazzo Reale, Milano, 16 April - 5 September 2010, and Curia Iulia and Palazzo Venezia, Roma, 8 October 2010 – 6 February 2011.

 

Ø  2008: Co-curator (with Maurizio Scarpari) of the exhibition Il Celeste Impero: dall'armata eterna alla Via della Seta [The Celestial Empire: from the Eternal Army to the Silk Road], Museo di Antichità, Torino, 10 July – 16 November 2008.

 

Ø  2008: Curator of the exhibition China at the court of the emperors. Unknown masterpieces from Han tradition to Tang elegance (25-907), Palazzo Strozzi, Firenze, 7 March – 8 June 2008.

 

Ø  2006: Member of the scientific and organisational committee of the exhibition Cina. Nascita di un impero [China. Birth of an Empire], Scuderie del Quirinale, Roma, 21 September 2006 – 4 February 2007.

 

 

Assignment of teaching or official research assignments at foreign and international universities and research institutes of high qualification

 

Ø  2025 (14 November-19 December): Visiting Professor, Centre de Recherche sur l’Extrême-Orient (CREOPS EA2565), Institut national d’histoire de l’art (INHA), Sorbonne Université, project title “Le monde en couleur : la production de porcelaines polychromes pour la cour impériale Qing”

 

Ø  2023 (September-January 2024): Visiting Fellow, The Institute of Chinese Studies (ICS) of the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

 

Ø  2023: (August 14-18): Workshop Instructor, The Mellon Chinese Object Study Workshop, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian art (NMAA).

 

Ø  2020: Visiting Professor, Zürich Universität, Kunsthistorische Institute, course title From Fire and Earth: Ceramic Stories from China.

 

Ø  2019 (Marzo-Aprile): Visiting Scholar, School of Arts, Peking University.

 

Ø  2017 (November-December): Visiting Professor, Hanoi University, course title Archaeological Tourism: Italy, China and Vietnam.

 

Ø 2014 (October-December): Visiting Professor, School of Archaeology and Museology, Peking University, titolo del corso早期考古学：二十世纪初来中国的西方考古学家——他们的文化环境与思想态度 (Early Archaeology. Early 20th Century Western Archaeologists in China: Their Cultural Environment and way of thinking).

 

Ø  2012 (October-December): Visiting Scholar, School of Archaeology and Museology, Peking University.

Invited as a foreign scholar representing the School of Archaeology and Museology, Peking University, to participate in the panel discussion exclusively for archaeologists entitled Longquan black-bodied celadon and Ge ware (龙泉黑胎青瓷与哥窑论证会), Longquan (Zhejiang), China, organized by the Zhejiang Institute of Archaeology and the Longquan Museum.

 

Ø  2001 (Autumn): Member of the team led by Professor Qin Dashu of Peking University for the archaeological excavation of the Shenhouzhen pottery kiln, Yuxian, Henan.

 

Scholarships:

 

Ø  2019: International Mobility exchange programme (Overseas) between Ca' Foscari University and Peking University for research on the history of art history in China to compare with Chinese art history written in the West.

 

Ø  2014: International Mobility exchange programme between Ca' Foscari University and Hanoi University for research on the maritime routes of porcelain and the trade of Vietnamese ceramics in South-East Asia.

 

Ø  2006: Postdoctoral Fellowship for International Scholarly Exchange awarded by the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation, Taiwan.

 

Ø  2005-06: Scholarship awarded by the Department of East Asian Studies, Ca’ Foscari University Venice.

 

Ø  2001: Chinese Culture Research Fellowship awarded by the China Scholarship Council for research at the Department of Archaeology, Peking University.

 

Ø  1997-98: Scholarship awarded by the East Asian History of Science Foundation, Hong Kong.

 

Ø  1996: Scholarship awarded by the Senate House, University of London.

 

Ø  1994-95: Post-lauream scholarship awarded by Ca’ Foscari University Venice to study archaeology in China.

 

 

Editing and participation in editorial committees of prestigious journals, series, encyclopaedias and treatises, participation in prestigious academies

 

Ø  2021 (ongoing): Editor in chief of the book series Marco Polo book series – Studies in Global Europe-Asia Connections, Edizioni Ca’ Foscari.

 

Ø  2019 (ongoing): member of the editorial board of the journal Venezia Arti, Edizioni Ca’ Foscari.

 

Ø  2014 (ongoing): member of the editorial board of the journal Annali di Ca’ Foscari Serie Orientale, Edizioni Ca’ Foscari.

 

Ø  2014 (ongoing): member of the editorial board of the book series Asiatica Venetiana, Edizioni Ca’ Foscari.

 

 

Fund-raising activities

 

Ø  2015: Erasmus+ KA1 - Learning Mobility of Individuals with Hanoi University: € 97.084.

Ø  2016: Erasmus+ KA1 - Learning Mobility of Individuals with Hanoi University: € 117.634.

Ø  2017: Erasmus+ KA1 - Learning Mobility of Individuals with Hanoi University: €125.110.

Ø  2018: Erasmus+ KA1 - Learning Mobility of Individuals with Hanoi University: €63.088

 

 

 

SUPERVISION ASSIGNMENTS

 

Ø  1 January-31 Dicember 2025: Dr Elisa Palomino, reasearch fellow sponsered by the Marco Polo Centre for Global Europe-Asia Connections

Ø  1 April 2024-30 June 2025: Manuela Lietti, research fellow sponsored by the PRIN 202 project Chinese narratives and the narration of China in Italy: literature, cinema and art at the intersection of cultural diplomacy and cultural industry (code H53D23006880006).

Ø  1 December 2024-30 November 2026: Dr Giulia Pra Floriani, research fellow, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoc fellowship, project PhotoMaKEASIA.

Ø  1 April 2023 (ongoing): Dr Rita Dal Martello, ricercatrice (RTDa) all'interno del Progetto CHANGES - Cultural Heritage Active Innovation for Sustainable Society, project code PE00000020 - CUP H53C22000850006, Piano Nazionale di Ripresa e Resilienza (PNRR)

 

PhD candidates

 

Ø  2024 (ongoing), supervisor: Ari Iris Fontana, The beautiful scholar: femininity and power in 18th-century literati art, Department of Asian and North African Studies, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.

Ø  2024 (ongoing), supervisor: Giacomo Cacciaguerra, Out of China, Where Then? Sinophone Contemporary Art Beyond Chineseness, Department of Asian and North African Studies, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.

Ø  2023 (ongoing), supervisor: Sergio Gianfrate, The Breath of Signs. Towards a Symptomatology of Living Experience in Chinese Handscroll Landscape Painting, Department of Asian and North African Studies, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.

Ø  2023, co-supervisor: Sun Yue, New Narratives during the Kangxi Reign (1662–1722): Research on the Narrative Motifs of the Chinese Porcelain Collection of Augustus the Strong, Philosophischen Fakultät der Universität Heidelberg, double PhD programme with Ca’ Foscari University.

Ø  2018-2023, co-supervisor: Tina Berdajs, Issues of Dating and Provenance of the East Asian Ceramic Vessels in Slovene Museum Collections, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana.

Ø  2028-2022, co-supervisor: Zhong Hanyang, Seen from the Metamorphosis of Ink-Wash Painting： Zhang Daqian (1899–1983) and Sino-American Communications from the 1950s to the 1970s, Philosophischen Fakultät der Universität Heidelberg, double PhD programme with Ca’ Foscari University.

Ø  2016-20, co-supervisor: Zhou Yixing, Studies on Nestorian Iconology in China and part of Central Asia during the 13th and 14th Centuries, Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.

Ø  2014-18, supervisor: Marcella Festa, Bronze Age communities and bronze metallurgy in Xinjiang, Department of Asian and North African Studies, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.

 

TEACHING (Modules Taught)

 

Ø  Academic year 1998/1999: tutor of MA Chinese Ceramics course at SOAS, University of London.

Ø  Academic year 1999/2000: lecturer in East Asian Art History at Ca’ Foscari University Venice.

Ø  Academic year 2000/2001: lecturer in East Asian Art History at Ca’ Foscari University Venice.

Ø  Academic year 2001/2002: lecturer in Chinese Art History (modules 1, 2 e 3) at Ca’ Foscari University Venice.

Ø  Academic year 2002/2003: lecturer in Chinese Art History (modules 1, 2 e 3) and seminar for PhD students on aesthetic theories on early Chinese painting at Ca’ Foscari University Venice.

Ø  Academic year 2003/2004: lecturer in Chinese Art History (modules 1, 2 e 4) at Ca’ Foscari University Venice.

Ø  Academic year 2004/2005: lecturer in Chinese Art History (modules 1-2 e 4) and in Japanese Art History (modules 1-2) at Ca’ Foscari University Venice.

Ø  Academic year 2005/2006: lecturer in Chinese Art History (modules 1, 2 e SP1) at Ca’ Foscari University Venice.

Ø  Academic year 2007/2008: lecturer in Chinese Art History (modules 1, 2 e SP1) at Ca’ Foscari University Venice.

Ø  Academic year 2008/2009: lecturer in Chinese Art History (modules 1, 2) and Arts, Architecture and Performance in Traditional China at Ca’ Foscari University Venice.

Ø  Academic year 2009/2010: lecturer in Chinese Art History (modules 1, 2) and Arts, Architecture and Performance in Traditional China at Ca’ Foscari University Venice.

Ø  From academic year 2010/11: 4 modules: Chinese Art History and Archaeology 1; Chinese Art History and Archaeology 2; Arts, Architecture and Performance in Traditional China at Ca’ Foscari University Venice.

 

 

ORGANISATIONAL DUTIES

 

Offices and tasks assigned by the Departments and the University, participation in commissions and committees

 

Ø  2022 (ongoing): member of the national doctoral board in Contemporary Art.

 

Ø  2020 (ongoing): Italian Director of the Confucius Institute at Ca’ Foscari University Venice.

 

Ø  2018 (ongoing): member of the scientific committee of the Marco Polo research centre.

 

Ø  2013 (ongoing): member of the doctoral board in Asian and African Studies.

 

Ø  2010 (ongoing): member of the research committee of the Department of Asian and North African Studies.

 

Ø  2013-2019: representative in the Council of the Language Area Library (BALI).

 

Ø  2014-2017: departmental delegate for internationalisation.

 

Ø  2011-2017: member of the departmental council.

 

Ø  dal 2017: member of the LICAAM Master's degree course board.

 

Ø  2014-2017: member of the LICSAAM Bachelor's degree course board.

 

Ø  2012- 2015: member of the board of the Interdepartmental School of Conservation and Production of Cultural Heritage.

 

Ø  2012-2013: departmental delegate for Open Days.

 

 

 

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

In press

 

Ø  RASTELLI S., “Challenges and solutions: the ingenuity of the Yaozhou potters”, in Transactions of the Oriental Ceramic Society, vol. 89, expected 2026.

 

Ø  RASTELLI S., “‘5000 anni di Cina’: l’arte antica come politica visiva dell’immagine della RPC”, in Nicoletta Pesaro (ed.), La Cina attraverso lo specchio: narrazioni cinesi in Italia tra letteratura, cinema e arte, Libreria Editrice Cafoscarina, Venezia, expected 2026.

 

2024

Ø  RASTELLI S., “La porcellana in Cina: connubio ideale di materie prime e ingegno”, in G. Curatola e C. Squarcina (eds), I mondi di Marco Polo. Il viaggio di un mercante veneziano del Duecento, Magonza, Arezzo, 2024, pp. 180-189 (ISBN: 978-88-31280-99-0). https://hdl.handle.net/10278/5066041.

 

Ø  RASTELLI S., “Porcelain in China: Ideal Combination of Raw Materials and Ingenuity”, in G. Curatola e C. Squarcina (eds), The worlds of Marco Polo. The journey of a venetian merchant from the 13th Century, Magonza, Arezzo, 2024, pp. 180-189 (ISBN: 978-88-31280-96-9). https://hdl.handle.net/10278/5067201

 

2023

Ø  RASTELLI S. (ed.), Vivid Transparencies. Yaozhou Wares from the Shang Shan Tang Collection, Direzione Regionale Musei Veneto, Venezia (ISBN: 9788885499195).

 

Ø  RASTELLI S., “From Fame to Oblivion to Re-evaluation: The Surprising Trajectory of the Yaozhou Kilns”, in S. Rastelli (ed.), Vivid Transparencies. Yaozhou Wares from the Shang Shan Tang Collection, Direzione Regionale Musei Veneto, Venezia, 2023, pp. 14-39 (ISBN: 9788885499195).

 

Ø  RASTELLI S., Catalogue entries 1-96, in S. Rastelli (ed.), Vivid Transparencies. Yaozhou Wares from the Shang Shan Tang Collection, Direzione Regionale Musei Veneto, Venezia, 2023, pp. 86-409 (ISBN: 9788885499195).

 

2021

Ø  RASTELLI S., entries “Accademismo in Cina”, “Arte delle ferite”, “Astrattismo in Cina”, “Chan Luis”, “Chang Johnson Tsong-zung”, “Chen Shizeng”, “Dong Xiwen”, “Gaudy art”, “Li Meishu”, “Lin Michael”, “Lingnan huapai”, “Liu Jianhua”, “Mahjong”, “Movimento arte nuova”, “Nuova onda ’85”, Pop politico”, “Puru”, “Realismi in Cina”, “Realismo cinico”, “Shanshui”, “Sigg Uli”, “Taiyang meishu xiehui”, “Taibeishi li meishuguan”, “Wang Jinsong”, “Wang Youshen”, “Xin Shuimo”, “Yang Maolin”, “Yang Sanlang”, “Zhang Daqian”, in Enciclopedia Treccani dell’Arte Contemporanea [Treccani Encyclopaedia of Contemporary Art], Roma: Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana fondata da Giovanni Treccani. [The Encyclopaedia was officially presented at the Biennale on 11 November 2021; pdfs are not yet available]

 

Ø  RASTELLI, S., “The Truth in Yeesookyung’s Moonlight Crowns”, Seoul: Art Sonje Center, pp. 153-169.

 

Ø  RASTELLI, S., “The Polyhedral and Elusive Nature of Geyao”. Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie orientale, 57, pp. 605-626 (DOI 10.30687/AnnOr/2385-3042/2021/01/022 e-ISSN 2385-3042).

 

Ø  RASTELLI S., “The mechanics of change: the aesthetics of Chinese ceramics in the Northern Song (960-1127) and early Jin (1127-1234) dynasties”, in Marcello Ghilardi and Hans-Georg Moeller (eds), The Bloomsbury research handbook of Chinese Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art, Bloomsbury Academic, London, New York, Oxford, New Delhi, Sydney, 2021, pp. 213-240 (ISBN: 9781350129764).

 

2020

Ø  RASTELLI S., “Conversing with the past: the value of copying in Chinese painting”, in Raffaello and Zhang Zeduan. New Perspectives on Perspective, Brera Eyes Wide Open, Firenze: Mandragora, 2020, pp. 74-90 (ISBN 9788874615605).

 

2018

Ø  RASTELLI S., “Catalogue entry 24”, in Lefebvre Éric (ed.), Parfums de Chine. La culture de l’encens au temps des empereurs, Paris: Paris Musèes, 2018, p. 80 (ISBN 9782759603817).

 

2016

Ø  RASTELLI S., L’arte cinese. I. Dalle origini alla dinastia Tang. 6000 a.C. – X secolo d.C., Torino, Einaudi, 2016, pp. 419 (ISBN 9788806213084) (monograph).

 

Ø  RASTELLI S., “The Concept of the Five Famous Wares of the Song Dynasty —A Modern Invention”, in Shi Ningchang 史宁昌, Miao Jianmin苗建民(eds.), Songdai Wuda Mingyao kexue jishu guoji xueshu taolunhui lunwenji宋代五大名窑科学技术国际学术讨论会论文集 Proceedings of International Symposium on Science and Technology of Five Great Wares of the Song Dynasty, Beijing, Kexue, 2016, pp. 460-466 (ISBN 978-7-03-049935-6).

 

2015

Ø  RASTELLI S., "Song (960-1279) caramics: aesthetics, theories, and archaeological discoveries", in Bulfoni C., Fasulo F., Piccinini C. (eds.), Le arti nella storia e nella società dell'Asia, Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Bulzoni Editore, Milano-Roma, 2015, pp. 3-15 (ISBN 9788868970086).

 

2014

Ø  WOOD N., RASTELLI S., “Parallel developments in Chinese porcelain technology in the 13th -14th centuries AD”, in M. Martinon-Torres (ed.), Craft and science: international perspectives on archaeological ceramics, (UCL Qatar Series in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage, 1), Doha, Qatar: Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation, 2014, pp. 225-234 (ISBN 9789927101755) http://dx.doi.org/10.5339/uclq.2014.cas.ch24 .

 

Ø  RASTELLI S., “Il grande sviluppo della produzione ceramica di epoca Jin [The great development of ceramic production in the Jin era]”, in M. Abbiati, F. Greselin (eds.), Il liuto e i libri. Studi in onore di Mario Sabattini, Venezia, Edizioni Ca’ Foscari, pp. 753-766 (ISBN 9788897735823).

 

Ø  RASTELLI S., “Una nuova interpretazione delle ceramiche Jun alla luce delle ultime scoperte archeologiche [A new interpretation of Jun ceramics in the light of the latest archaeological discoveries]”, in C. Bulfoni, S. Pozzi (eds.), Atti del XIII Convegno dell'Associazione Italiana Studi Cinesi. Milano 22-24 September 2011, Franco Angeli, Milano, 2014, pp. 364-377 (ISBN 9788891706799).

 

2013

Ø  RASTELLI S., “Arte e rito nell’età del Bronzo [Art and ritual in the Bronze Age]”, in M. Scarpari, T. Lippiello (eds.), La Cina. Dall'età del Bronzo all'impero Han, Grandi Opere Einaudi, Torino, Einaudi, 2013, pp. 323-400 (ISBN 9788806185114).

 

Ø  RASTELLI S., “Nuovi spazi creativi: l’arte Zhou Orientale [New creative spaces: Eastern Zhou art]”, in M. Scarpari e T. Lippiello (eds.), La Cina. Dall'età del Bronzo all'impero Han, Grandi Opere Einaudi, Torino, Einaudi, 2013, pp. 401-456 (ISBN 9788806185114).

 

Ø  RASTELLI S., “Il parco funerario del Primo Imperatore [The First Emperor's funeral park]”, in M. Scarpari e T. Lippiello (eds.), La Cina. Dall'età del Bronzo all'impero Han, Grandi Opere Einaudi, Torino, Einaudi, 2013, pp. 457-470 (ISBN 9788806185114).

 

Ø  RASTELLI S., “Lusso e immortalità: l’arte Han [Luxury and immortality: Han art]”, in M. Scarpari e T. Lippiello (eds.), La Cina. Dall'età del Bronzo all'impero Han, Grandi Opere Einaudi, Torino, Einaudi, 2013, pp. 471-532 (ISBN 9788806185114).

 

2011

Ø  RASTELLI S., “The controversial history of Jun ware/La controversa storia delle ceramiche Jun”, in G. Repetti, S. Rastelli, R. L. Enseki Hancock (eds.), Jun shards in the collection of the Chinese Museum of Parma, Brescia: C.S.A.M., 2011, pp. 1-15 (ISBN 9788888289588).

 

2010

Ø  RASTELLI S. “Il ‘soffice potere’ dell’arte: la diplomazia pubblica e le esposizioni di arte antica [The 'soft power' of art: public diplomacy and exhibitions of ancient art]”, in Mondo cinse, vol. 143, 2010, pp. 128-144 (ISSN 0390-2811).

 

Ø  RASTELLI S. “L’arte Han: dall’astrazione alla narrazione [Han art: from abstraction to narration]”, in DE CARO S., SCARPARI M. (eds.), I due imperi. L’aquila e il dragone, Milano: Federico Motta Editore, 2010, pp. 72-77 (ISBN 9788871795881).

 

Ø  RASTELLI S. entries (in exhibition catalogue) nn. 251-459 in DE CARO S., SCARPARI M. (eds.), I due imperi. L’aquila e il dragone, Milano: Federico Motta Editore, 2010 (ISBN 9788871795881).

 

2008

Ø  RASTELLI S., The Yaozhou Kilns. A re-evaluation, Venezia: Libreria Editrice Cafoscarina, pp. 417 (ISBN 8875432007) (monograph).

 

Ø  RASTELLI S. “China at the court of the Emperors: from Han tradition to Tang elegance”, in The world of antiques and art, 2008, pp. 70-73 (ISSN 1443-6027).

 

Ø  RASTELLI S. “Dalla tradizione Han all'eleganza Tang [From Han tradition to Tang elegance]”, in RASTELLI S. (ed.), Cina alla corte degli imperatori. Capolavori mai visti dalla tradizione Han all’eleganza Tang (25-907), Milano: Skira, 2008, pp. 23-45 (ISBN 9788861306196).

 

Ø  RASTELLI S. “From Han tradition to Tang elegance”, in RASTELLI S. (ed.), China at the Court of the Emperors. Unknown Masterpieces from Han Tradition to Tang Elegance (25-907), Milano: Skira, 2008, pp. 23-45 (ISBN 9788861306813).

 

Ø  RASTELLI S. “Ornamentazione e naturalismo: i linguaggi artistici Han e Tang [Ornamentation and naturalism: Han and Tang artistic languages]”, in RASTELLI S., SCARPARI M. (eds.), Il Celeste Impero: dall’armata eterna alla Via della Seta, Milano: Skira, 2008, pp. 37-45 (ISBN 9788861309166).

 

Ø  RASTELLI S. (ed.), China at the Court of the Emperors. Unknown Masterpieces from Han Tradition to Tang Elegance (25-907), Milano: Skira, 2008 (ISBN 9788861306813).

 

Ø  RASTELLI S. (ed.), Cina alla corte degli imperatori. Capolavori mai visti dalla tradizione Han all’eleganza Tang (25-907), Milano: Skira, 2008 (ISBN 9788861306196).

 

Ø  RASTELLI S; SCARPARI M. (eds.), Il celeste Impero. Dall'Esercito di Terracotta alla Via della Seta [The Celestial Empire. From the Terracotta Army to the Silk Road], Milano: Skira, 2008 (ISBN 9788806185121).

 

Ø  RASTELLI S. entries (in exhibition catalogue) nn. 1-7, 48-68, 70-82, 84-85, 100-101, 104, 108-121, 124-131, in RASTELLI S. (ed.), China at the Court of the Emperors. Unknown Masterpieces from Han Tradition to Tang Elegance (25-907), Milano: Skira, 2008 (ISBN 9788861306813).

 

Ø  RASTELLI S., entries (in exhibition catalogue) nn. 1-7, 48-68, 70-82, 84-85, 100-101, 104, 108-121, 124-131, in RASTELLI S., Cina alla corte degli imperatori. Capolavori mai visti dalla tradizione Han all’eleganza Tang (25-907), Milano: Skira, 2008 (ISBN 9788861306196).

 

Ø  RASTELLI S., entries (in exhibition catalogue) nn. 1-18, 22-25, 29-47, 77-78, 94-95, 97-122, 124-129, in RASTELLI S., SCARPARI M. (eds.), Il Celeste Impero: dall’armata eterna alla Via della Seta, Milano: Skira, 2008 (ISBN 9788861309166).

 

2007

Ø  RASTELLI S., “Le ceramiche di Yaozhou nel periodo Jin: declino o adattamento? [Yaozhou ceramics in the Jin period: decline or adaptation?]”, in DE GIORGI L., SAMARANI G. (eds.), Percorsi della civiltà cinese fra passato e presente – Atti del X Convegno dell’Associazione Italiana di Studi Cinesi, Venezia 10-12 marzo 2005, Venezia: Libreria Editrice Cafoscarina, 2007, pp. 437-443 (ISBN 9788875431167).

 

Ø  RASTELLI S., entries (in exhibition catalogue) nn. 45-50, 52-62, 74-75, 127-129, in CALZA G.C. (ed.), Capolavori dalla Città Proibita. Qianlong e la sua corte [Masterpieces from the Forbidden City. Qianlong and his court], Roma: Fondazione Roma, 2007.

 

2006

Ø  RASTELLI S., “Dalla terra e dal fuoco: tecniche di produzione della ceramica [From earth and fire: ceramic production techniques]”, in LANCIOTTI L., SCARPARI M. (eds.), Cina. Nascita di un impero, Milano: Skira, 2006, pp. 59-65 (ISBN 8876249842).

 

Ø  RASTELLI S., entries (in exhibition catalogue) nn. 29-60, 88-122, in LANCIOTTI L., SCARPARI M.(eds.), Cina. Nascita di un impero, Milano: Skira, 2006, (ISBN 8876249842).

 

2005

Ø  RASTELLI S., “I forni di Yaozhou nelle fonti cinesi antiche [The Yaozhou kilns in ancient Chinese sources]”, in SCARPARI M., LIPPIELLO T. (eds.), Caro maestro…Scritti in onore di Lionello Lanciotti per l’ottantesimo compleanno, Venezia: Libreria Editrice Cafoscarina, pp. 997-1006 (ISBN 8875430586).

Ø  RASTELLI S. “Baofeng”, in Istituto dell’Enciclopedia Italiana Fondata da Giovanni Treccani, Enciclopedia archeologica, vol. Asia, Roma: Istituto dell’Enciclopedia Italiana, pp. 733-734. https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/cina-l-archeologia-storica_%28Il-Mondo-dell%27Archeologia%29/

Ø  RASTELLI S., “Hongzhou” in Istituto dell’Enciclopedia Italiana Fondata da Giovanni Treccani, Enciclopedia archeologica, vol. Asia, Roma: Istituto dell’Enciclopedia Italiana, pp. 725-725.

Ø  RASTELLI S., “Jinfeng”, in Istituto dell’Enciclopedia Italiana Fondata da Giovanni Treccani, Enciclopedia archeologica, vol. Asia, Roma: Istituto dell’Enciclopedia Italiana, pp. 735-736.

Ø  RASTELLI S., “Laohudong”, in Istituto dell’Enciclopedia Italiana Fondata da Giovanni Treccani, Enciclopedia archeologica, vol. Asia, Roma: Istituto dell’Enciclopedia Italiana, pp. 737-738.

Ø  RASTELLI S., “Lingwu”, in Istituto dell’Enciclopedia Italiana Fondata da Giovanni Treccani, Enciclopedia archeologica, vol. Asia, Roma: Istituto dell’Enciclopedia Italiana, pp. 738-738.

Ø  RASTELLI S., “Silongkou”, in Istituto dell’Enciclopedia Italiana Fondata da Giovanni Treccani, Enciclopedia archeologica, vol. Asia, Roma: Istituto dell’Enciclopedia Italiana, pp. 728-729.

Ø  RASTELLI S., “Yaozhou”, in Istituto dell’Enciclopedia Italiana Fondata da Giovanni Treccani, Enciclopedia archeologica, vol. Asia, Roma: Istituto dell’Enciclopedia Italiana, pp. 729-730.

 

Ø  RASTELLI S., “Jindai foushi Yaozhouyao de shuaitui shiqi [Was the Jin dynasty really a period of decline for the Yaozhou kilns?]”, in Yaozhouyao Bowuguan, Zhongguo Yaozhouyao. Guoji xueshu taolunhui wenji [The Yaozhou kiln. Proceedings of the international symposium], Xi'an: San Qin chubanshe, 2005, pp. 30-34 (ISBN 7806289593).

 

Ø  WOOD N., DOHERTY C., RASTELLI S., “Some aspects of Yue ware production at Shanglinhu in the late Tang dynasty”, in GUO Jingkun (ed.), Gu taoci kexue jishu 6. Guoji taolunhui lunwenji (ISAC ’05) 2005 International Symposium on Ancient Ceramics - Its Scientific and Technological Insights (ISAC '05), Shanghai: Shanghai kexue jishu wenxian chubanshe, pp. 185-198, (ISBN 7543925893).

 

2004

Ø  RASTELLI S., Ceramica Cinese. Evoluzione tecnica dal neolitico alle Cinque Dinastie [Chinese Ceramics. Technical Evolution from the Neolithic to the Five Dynasties], Venezia: Libreria Editrice Cafoscarina, 2004 (ISBN 8875430004) (monograph).

 

Ø  WOOD N., RASTELLI S., DOHERTY C., “Early Yaozhou celadon – a true ancestor to Southern Song Guan ware?”, in PIERSON S. (ed.), Song ceramics: art history, archaeology and technology. Colloquies on Art and Archaeology No. 22, London: University of London, Percival David Foundation, School of Oriental and African Studies, vol. 22, 2004, pp. 221-237, (ISBN 0728603659).

 

Ø  RASTELLI S., “Protoporcellana, celadon primitivo, terracotta invetriata o l’invenzione del grès [Protoporcelain, primitive celadon, glazed earthenware or the invention of stoneware]”, in TAMBURELLO G. (ed.), L’invenzione della Cina – Atti del VIII Convegno dell’Associazione Italiani di Studi Cinesi (AISC), Lecce: Congedo editore, 2004, pp. 489-504, (ISBN 8880865943).

 

Ø  WOOD N., RASTELLI S., DOHERTY C., “Zaoqi Yaozhou qingci he Nan Song Laohudongyao de jishu guanxi” [Technological relations between Yaozhou green ware and Southern Song Laohudong wares], in Beijing daxue Zhongguo kaoguxue yanjiu zhongxin, Hangzhoushi Yuanlin wenwuju, Nan Song Guanyao yu Geyao. Hangzhou Nan Song Guanyao Laohudong yaozhi guoji xueshuyan lunhui [Guan and Ge wares of the Southern Song period. International symposium on Southern Song Laohudong Guan ware], Hangzhou: Hangzhou daxue chubanshe, 2004, pp. 190-195, (ISBN 7900674349).

 

2002

Ø  RASTELLI S., “Chang'an and Yaozhou: the influence of the capital on the development of northern celadon”, in Università degli Studi di Torino, Papers from the XIII EACS Conference. The Spirit of the Metropolis, Torino, 2002 (ISBN 889008880X).

 

Ø  RASTELLI S, WOOD N., DOHERTY C. “Technological development at the Huangbao kiln site, Yaozhou, in the 9th to 11th centuries AD – Some analytical and microstructural examination”, in GUO Jingkun (ed.), Gu taoci kexue jishu 5. Guoji taolunhui lunwenji (ISAC ’02). 2002 International Symposium on Ancient Ceramics - Its Scientific and Technological Insights (ISAC '02), Shanghai: Shanghai kexue jishu wenxian chubanshe, 2002, pp. 179-193 (ISBN 7543920387).

 

2000

Ø  RASTELLI S., “Qingliangsi kilns: imperial or popular?”, in Annali di Ca’ Foscari, vol. 3, 2000, pp. 383-392 (ISSN 1125-3762).

 

1999

Ø  RASTELLI S., “The Stele of Marquis Deying”, in Asiatica Venetiana 1999:4, pp. 205-213 (ISSN 1126-5256).

 

 

OTHER USEFUL INFORMATION

 

Ø  2018-19: Consultant for contemporary Chinese art at the Madre Museum, Naples, Italy.

 

Ø  2018 (ongoing): Consultant for Chinese porcelain collection at Museo d'Arte Orientale Venezia.

 

Ø  2017 (ongoing): Member of the scientific committee for the new Museo d'Arte Orientale Venezia, Polo Museale del Veneto.

 

Ø  2020 (ongoing): substitute representative in the board of the Federation of Archaeological Councils.

 

Ø  2016 (ongoing): member of the University Conference for Asian and African Studies (CUSTAA).

 

Ø  Consultant for the Department of Archaeology, Fine Arts and Landscape and for the General Management of Archaeology, Fine Arts and Landscape, Ministry of Culture, for opinions on the issue of authorisation for the export of objects of Chinese origin.

 

Ø  Peer reviewer for: Museum Management and Curatorship; Bloomsbury Academic Publishing, New York (Book Proposal/Manuscript Reviewer); Leverhulme Trust (research fellowship); Ming Qing Studies; ANVUR within the VQR 2010-2014 and the VQR 2015-2019; occasionally for various academic journals and periodicals.

 

Public Engagement (University’s Third Mission)

 

Ø  2026: proponent, together with Dr Elena Pollacchi and Dr Giulia Pra Floriani, of the exhibition project Reframing Silk: Giacomo Caneva's photographs of the 1859 expedition to China to be held at the Museum of Oriental Art, Venice, from 6 February to April 2026 (not funded).

 

Ø  2025 (ongoing): member of the scientific committee of “Teasearch, Portal dedicated to the study and dissemination of knowledge about tea” https://teasearch.org/web/it

 

Ø  2024: proponent of a public outreach platform dedicated to tea culture. The project was selected and received funding from Ca’ Foscari University for the 2024 Public Engagement Programme).

 

Ø  2022: proponent, together with Dr Stefano Riccioni and Dr Valentina Sapienza, of the project Itineraries in the Venetian Bestiary. The project was selected and received funding from Ca’ Foscari University for the 2023 Public Engagement Programme.

 

Ø  2021 (24-25 February): Art study days of the Confucius Institute University of Turin; title of the conferences "Chinese Art".

 

Ø  2018 (26 September): introductory note to the exhibition by Lia Wei and Zhang Qiang Lithic impressions Palazzo Zen, Venice.

 

Ø  2018 (21 September): Confucius Institute of Venice event organised in honour of Prof. Bai Ming (Tsinghua University) An analysis of the present situation of Chinese modern pottery; lecture title: "Introduction to Chinese pottery technology".

 

Ø  2018 (5 March): Circolo Italo-Britannico, Venezia; lecture title: “A New Story of Chinese Art History”.

 

Ø  2017 (31 May): Liceo Statale Niccolò Forteguerri, Pistoia; lecture title: "With Different Eyes: Introduction to Chinese Art".

 

Ø  2011 (December): 15th edition of the Salone dei Beni e delle attività Culturali e del Restauro, Venice, in collaboration with Veneto Metadistrict of Cultural and Environmental Heritage on New Technologies for the valorisation of Cultural Heritage - from the Project to the first concrete results; lecture title: " Major exhibitions of Chinese art organised by the Department of Asian and Mediterranean African Studies".

 

Ø  2011 (November): Moshe Tabibnia Gallery, Milan, series of meetings in conjunction with the exhibition Chinese weaving. Ancient textile art from the 15th to the 19th century; lecture title "Auspicioua symbols on imperial porcelain and carpets from the Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1911) periods".

 

Ø  2011 (September): National Museum of China, Beijing, in conjunction with the exhibition BULGARI. 125 years of Italian magnificence, lecture title "Gold and ornaments in ancient China".

 

Ø  2008 (6 October): FAI art course "Meeting Asia. 29 lectures on oriental art", Turin; lecture title: "The Celestial Empire. From the Terracotta Army to the Silk Road ".

 

Ø  2008 (15 April): Antonio Ratti Foundation and Municipal Library, Como; lecture title: "Imitation as a transmission of past models in ancient Chinese art ".

 

Ø  2008 (11 March): Richmond American International University in London, Florence study Center, Firenze; lecture title: “Behind the scenes of the exhibition China. From Han Tradition to Tang Elegance”.

 

 

Last updated 8 March 2026

 

Sabrina Rastelli