Readings in Italian Mannerism

Biographical notes

Liana De Girolami Cheney (Volume editor)

The Editor: Liana De Girolami Cheney, Professor of Art History at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, is the author and editor of Botticelli’s Neoplatonic Images; The Paintings of the Casa Vasari; Readings in Italian Mannerism; The Symbolism of Vanitas in the Arts; Literature and Music; Pre-Raphaelitism and Medievalism in the Arts; Essays on Women Artists: The most Excellent and Giorgio Vasari: The Painter of the «Lives». Her major articles include studies on Giorgio Vasari and Mannerist female painters (Sofonisba Anguissola, Lavinia Fontana and Barbara Longhi). Her forthcoming books are on Edward Burne-Jones’ Mythological Paintings, Giorgio Vasari’s Classical Art and Mythology and Neoplatonic Aesthetics: Music, Literature, and the Visual Arts, co-edited with John Hendrix.