Autor: Liana De Girolami Cheney

Liana De Girolami Cheney, PhD, is presently a Visiting Scholar in Art History at the Università di Aldo Moro in Bari, Italy, and Investigadora de Historia de Arte, SIELAE, Universidad de Coruña, Spain. She is an Emerita Professor of Art History, Chairperson of the Department of Cultural Studies at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. She received her BS and BA degrees in Psychology and Philosophy and her MA in History of Art and Aesthetics from the University of Miami, and her PhD in Italian Renaissance and Baroque from Boston University. Cheney is a Renaissance, Mannerism, and Pre-Raphaelite scholar, and has authored and co-authored numerous articles and books, including James Abbott McNeill Whistler Papers; James Abbott McNeill Whistler and His Birthplace; Botticelli”s Neoplatonic Images; Readings in Italian Mannerism; The Homes of Giorgio Vasari (English and Italian); Self-Portraits of Women Painter; Pre-Raphaelite Medievalism; Giuseppe Arcimboldo: The Magic Paintings (English, French and German); Giorgio Vasari”s Artistic and Emblematic Manifestations; Giorgio Vasari”s Prefaces: Art and Theory; Agnolo Bronzino: The Florentine Muse, and Edward Burne-Jones” Mythical Paintings, among others. Her forthcoming books include Readings in Italian Mannerism II: Architecture and Sculpture and Giorgio Vasari”s Personifications of Virtues: An Iconology of Beauty and Wisdom.