Dr. Antonio De Caro is an Assistant Curator (Southeast Asia) at the Asian Civilisations Museum, National Heritage Board, Singapore. He was previously a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Zürich and Research Associate at SOAS, University of London

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 periods in China.

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Curriculum Vitae

July 2026- present

Assistant Curator (Southeast Asia), Asian Civilisations Museum, National Heritage Board, Singapore

September 2025- present

Research Associate, Department of History, SOAS, University of London, U.K.

August 2025

Resident Fellow, Albuquerque Foundation, Sintra, Portugal

Visiting Fellow, Department of Chinese Studies, Hong Kong University, Hong Kong S.A.R., China.

January 2024 – February 2024

January 2023 - June 2026

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