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Yih-Fen Hua

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Introduction	Professor, Department of History, National Taiwan University Address: Department of History, National Taiwan University No. 1, Sec. 4, Roosevelt Road, Taipei 10617, TAIWAN Email: yfhua@ntu.edu.tw
Favorite books	Yih-Fen Hua is an art historian and cultural historian with a special interest in European visual culture between 1300 and 1700; besides, she is a specialist in Jacob Burckhardt studies. She is the author of the exhibition catalogue Art and Religion—Italian Painting from the Golden Age of 14 through 17 Centuries (Taipei 2006), which encompasses the collections from Musei Vaticani, Pinacoteca di Siena, Museo Diocesano Milano and other museums from Italy. In 2007 she published her translation of Jacob Burckhardt’s Die Kultur der Renaissance in Italien with annotations, commentaries and a critical introduction (National Translation Project launched by National Science Council Taiwan, vol. 24). This book is the first Chinese translation from Burckhardt’s original German version in Chinese-speaking world. In 2008 she published a monograph Rembrandt and the Bible—art and religion in the Dutch Golden Age. Her current research focuses on ecumenical interpretation of the interrelationships between Italian Renaissance and the Reformation.

Introduction

Professor, Department of History, National Taiwan University Address: Department of History, National Taiwan University No. 1, Sec. 4, Roosevelt Road, Taipei 10617, TAIWAN Email: yfhua@ntu.edu.tw

Favorite books

Yih-Fen Hua is an art historian and cultural historian with a special interest in European visual culture between 1300 and 1700; besides, she is a specialist in Jacob Burckhardt studies. She is the author of the exhibition catalogue Art and Religion—Italian Painting from the Golden Age of 14 through 17 Centuries (Taipei 2006), which encompasses the collections from Musei Vaticani, Pinacoteca di Siena, Museo Diocesano Milano and other museums from Italy. In 2007 she published her translation of Jacob Burckhardt’s Die Kultur der Renaissance in Italien with annotations, commentaries and a critical introduction (National Translation Project launched by National Science Council Taiwan, vol. 24). This book is the first Chinese translation from Burckhardt’s original German version in Chinese-speaking world. In 2008 she published a monograph Rembrandt and the Bible—art and religion in the Dutch Golden Age. Her current research focuses on ecumenical interpretation of the interrelationships between Italian Renaissance and the Reformation.