Julia K. Murray

Julia K. Murray is Professor Emerita of Art History, East Asian Studies, and Religious Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Associate in Research at Harvard University's Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies (https://arthistory.wisc.edu/staff/julia-k-murray). She has also worked at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Freer Gallery of Art (National Museum of Asian Art), and Harvard Art Museums. In 2010 she curated and co-authored the catalog Confucius: His Life and Legacy in Art (China Institute, New York; organized with the Shandong Provincial Museum). Besides many articles on Chinese painting and woodblock printing, her books include Mirror of Morality: Chinese Narrative Illustration and Confucian Ideology (2007; Chinese edition 道德镜鉴：中國敘述性圖畫與儒家意識形態, 2014); Ma Hezhi and the Illustration of the Book of Odes (1993); Last of the Mandarins (1987); and A Decade of Discovery (1979). Her research focuses on portraits and illustrated biographies of Confucius in China, Japan, Korea, and Europe.