Liana Cheney

Liana De Girolami Cheney, PhD, is a Professor of Art History emerita from the University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA. She received her PhD in Art History from Boston University in Massachusetts, USA. She is the author and co-author of several books on the Italian Renaissance, Mannerism, and Italian Women’s painters, notably Botticelli’s Neoplatonic Images, Neoplatonic Aesthetics, The Homes of Giorgio Vasari, Giorgio Vasari’s Teachers: Sacred and Profane Art, Giorgio Vasari’s Prefaces, Giorgio Vasari’s Artistic and Emblematic Manifestations, Readings in Italian Mannerism I and II, Giuseppe Arcimboldo: Magical Paintings, Agnolo Bronzino: The Florentine Muse, Self-Portraits by Women Painters, Lavinia Fontana’s Mythological Paintings: Art, Beauty and Wisdom, and Barbara Longhi of Ravenna: Art, Grace and Piety.