Ko-Ching Chao
Assistant Professor
Western Art History, Western Architectural History and Theories, Florentine Renaissance Studies, art and Society
07-5252000 #5746
Koching.chao@mail.nsysu.edu.tw
Academic Degrees
Ph.D. History of Art, University of York, UK
MA, Fine Arts, National Taiwan Normal University
BA, Education, National Taipei University of Education
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
- Postdoctoral Researcher, Si Wan College, NSYSU
- International Summer Programme Lecturer, University of York, UK
- TUSA Visiting Researcher, University of California, Berkeley, USA
HONOURS AND GRANTS
| · Grant for Postgraduate Erasmus + Mobility, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy
2019 Supervisor: Professor Gianluca Belli · Postgraduate Research Bursary, CREMS, University of York, United Kingdom 2016, 2017, 2018 · Governmental Scholarship for Overseas Study, Ministry of Education, Taiwan 2015 – 2019 |
| Four-year scholarship for doctoral degree in History of Art |
| · Aim for the Top University Plan Scholarship, Ministry of Education, Taiwan
2014 – 2015 |
| Visiting Researcher at the University of California, Berkeley |
| · Research Bursary for Renaissance Study, Villa I Tatti – the Harvard University Centre for Italian Renaissance Studies and the Getty Foundation
2014 |
[中山x高美館] 城市藝術場域探索與實踐
[中山x高美館] 城市圖像記憶—藝術的詮釋與再現
[中山x高美館] 世界美術館與城市巡禮
英語授課
探尋建築工藝中的高雄故事
- The Commune of Montepulciano and its Palazzo Comunale, 1234-c.1465: A Social and Architecture History (進行中，國立中山大學圖書出版補助計畫)
Ph.D DISSERTATION
Montepulciano’s Palazzo Comunale, 1440 – c.1465: Rethinking Castellated Civic Palaces in Florentine Architectural and Political Contexts.
JOURNAL ARTICLES
- “The Facade of Montepulciano's Palazzo Comunale, 1440-c.1465: A Castellated Representation of Florentine Territorial Hegemony", Architectural History: Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain, Vol. 66(2023):1-20. (A&HCI, Cambridge Core)
- The Girolami’s Plaque of Saint Zenobius, c.1415 -1420: Approaching a Personal Political Advertisement in Quattrocento Florence”, in Journal of History, NCCU, 53 (2020): 105-150. (THCI Core)
- “Deciphering Gender in Renaissance Florence: A Linguistic-Formalistic Analysis of Donatello’s David”, Sculpture Quarterly, 13 (2005): 2-30.
SELECTED CONFERENCE PAPERS
- ‘The Palazzo Comunale in Montepulciano: a Florentine Military Strategy in Response to the Battle of Anghiari’, European Association for Urban History (EAUH), Rome, (August 2018).
- ‘Rethinking Castellated Façade of the Palazzo Comunale in Montepulciano: Cosimo de’ Medici, the Dieci di Balia, and Defence of Florence’, Society for Renaissance Studies, Sheffield, (July 2018). Paper shortlisted for postgraduate conference awards.
- ‘“For Honour and Utility”: Establishing the Medicean identity in Montepulciano’s Palazzo Comunale, c. 1440’, Renaissance Architecture and Theory Scholars annual colloquium, Oxford Brookes, (April 2018).
- ‘Constituting the Public Piazza in Trecento Communal Statues: Framing Montepulciano’s Piazza Grande in 1337’,
- Medieval and Early Modern Spaces and Places, the Open University, Milton Keynes, England, (February 2018).
- ‘Framing Florence’s Seat of Government in the Girolami Family’s Marble Plaque of St. Zenobius’, History of Art Annual Conference, University of York, (March 2017).
