Anastasia Pineschi

Anastasia Pineschi
Position
Partners and Activities Coordinator for the International Dunhuang Project
Department
Collections
Anastasia Pineschi received her BA from UCLA in 2018 for Art History and Anthropology and her MA from the Courtauld Institute of Art in 2020. She has previously worked at cultural institutions such as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Tate Modern to help manage collections information, coordinate exhibitions, and organise various projects. Her current role as the IDP Partners and Activities Coordinator involves supporting the administration of the International Dunhuang Project, a public access initiative that makes information and images of artefacts from Dunhuang and archaeological sites of the Eastern Silk Road freely available online.

Collection Guides

Detail of a Chinese scroll on fine yellow paper with alternating painted Buddha figures and Chinese characters in columns.

Stein collection

Over 45,000 items collected by Sir Marc Aurel Stein

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Projects

An image of the frontispiece of the Diamond Sutra, with the Buddha in the centre preaching to a crowd.

International Dunhuang Project (IDP)

An international collaboration making manuscripts and items from along the Eastern Silk Roads available online.

End of a manuscript on fine yellow paper with Chinese characters in columns

Lotus Sutra Manuscripts Conservation and Digitisation Project

We have conserved and digitised nearly 800 Lotus Sutra manuscripts in Chinese language

All projects