Biography

Paola Demattè will be on leave during Wintersession and Spring, 2013.

Paola Demattè is Professor of Chinese Art and Archaeology in the History of Art and Visual Culture at Rhode Island School of Design. She holds a Laurea in Chinese Language and Literature from the Università degli Studi di Venezia and a Ph.D. in Archaeology from the University of California, Los Angeles. She has written on the origins of Chinese writing, pre-dynastic urbanism, archaic jades and funerary art and on Jesuits’ activities in China. Prof. Demattè has also curated an exhibition at the Getty Center and co-authored an award-winning volume on Sino-European exchanges in the 16^th through the 19^th centuries (China on Paper, Getty Publications 2007).

Academic Research/Areas of Interest

Dr. Paola Demattè specializes in the Neolithic and Bronze Age archaeology of China, prehistoric art and East-West contacts and exchanges.

Photo at right: "Prof. Demattè with the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei"

Paola Dematte

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pdematte@risd.edu
401-454-6267

• LAUR, Universita Degli Studi Di Venezia
• MA, University of California, Los Angeles
• PHD, University of California, Los Angeles

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