Antonio De Caro (PhD, Hong Kong Baptist University) is Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Art History, University of Zürich, in Switzerland. His monograph, Angelo Zottoli. A Jesuit missionary in China (1848–1902), appeared in 2022.
His interests lie in the study of Sino-European encounters including, in particular, the popularisation, diffusion, and reception of Catholic art during the early modern and modern period in China.
Curriculum Vitae
January 2024 – February 2024
Visiting Fellow, Department of Chinese Studies, Hong Kong University, Hong Kong S.A.R., China.
January 2023 - present
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, International Research Project GLOBECOSAL (Global Economies of Salvation. Art and the Negotiation of Sanctity in the Early Modern Period), Department of Art History, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
September 2022 – December 2022
Visiting Fellow, School of Divinity, Centre for the Study of World Christianity, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, U. K.
May 2022 – December 2022
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, International Research Project SERICA (Sino-European Religious Intersections in Central Asia. Interactive Texts and Intelligent Networks) Department of Humanities, University of Turin, Turin, Italy
February 2022 – May 2022
Assistant Professor, Department of Chinese Studies, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
November2019 – May2022
Postdoctoral Scientific Researcher, Center for Early Medieval Studies, Department of Art History, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
