Liana Cheney

Liana De Girolami Cheney, PhD, is an Emerita Professor in Art History at the University of Massachusetts Lowell and a Visiting Scholar in Art History at the Università di Aldo Moro, Italy, and Investigadora de Historia de Arte at the Universidad de Coruña, Spain. She received her MA in History of Art and Aesthetics from the University of Miami, Florida, and her PhD in Italian Renaissance and Baroque from Boston University, Massachusetts. She is a Renaissance and Mannerist scholar and is the author and co-author of numerous articles and books, including Botticelli’s Neoplatonism in His Mythological Paintings; Giorgio Vasari’s Teachers: Sacred and Profane Love; Giuseppe Arcimboldo: The Magic Paintings; Readings in Italian Mannerism I and II; Giorgio Vasari’s Art and Art Theory; and Giorgio Vasari’s Artistic and Emblematic Manifestations, among others.