Liana De Girolami Cheney (born 1942) is an art historian, administrator, author, curator, and educator. She is the Founder of the Society of Renaissance Art History.
Early life and education
Cheney was born in Milan, Italy. She has a B.S. and an M.A. from the University of Miami. She earned her Ph.D. from Boston University. Cheney is known for her work presenting women artists, especially in the Boston area.
Cheney taught virtually for the Beacon Hill Seminar (BHS) in Boston on art seminars about ancient Roman culture, Italian Renaissance paintings, American landscape paintings, Pre-Raphaelite artists, and Women's self-portraits before retiring to Florida in 2020.
As of 2024 Cheney is the president of the Association for Textual Scholarship of Art History.
Publications
- Cheney, Liana; Hendrix, John Shannon (2004). Neoplatonic Aesthetics. New York: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. ISBN 978-0-8204-7111-2.
- Girolami, Liana De (2021). Edward Burne-Jones on Nature. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. ISBN 978-1-5275-6904-1.
- Cheney, Liana (2003). Essays on Women Artists. Lewiston: Mellen. ISBN 978-0-7734-6818-4.
- Cheney, Liana; Faxon, Alicia Craig; Russo, Kathleen Lucey (2009). Self-portraits by Women Painters. Washington, DC: New Academia Publishing, LLC. ISBN 978-0-9823867-3-6. OCLC 494691392.
References
- ^ "Liana De Girolami Cheney, Ph.D., Presented with the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award by Marquis Who's Who". 24-7 Press Release Newswire. Retrieved 2023-12-13.
- ^ "Art Historian and Author, Liana Cheney Returns to Beacon Hill Seminars – Beacon Hill Times". beaconhilltimes.com. Retrieved 2023-12-13.
- ^ "Giorgio Vasari's Moral Virtues in the Oratory of the Compagnia del Gesù at Cortona: Physical and Metaphysical Power | Iconocrazia". www.iconocrazia.it. Retrieved 2023-12-13.
- "Liana Cheney | World Languages & Cultures | Fine Arts Humanities & Social Sciences | UMass Lowell". www.uml.edu. Retrieved 2024-06-30.
- Temin, Christine (8 February 1987). "RECOGNITION FOR WOMEN ARTISTS CAUCUS MARKED BY MORE THAN 60 EXHIBITS IN BOSTON AREA". Boston Globe (pre-1997 Fulltext); Boston, Mass. pp. A1 – via Proquest.
- "Home". Association for Textual Scholarship in Art History. Retrieved 2023-12-13.
- Review of Neoplatonic Aesthetics
- Joost-Gaugier, Christiane L. (2005). "Review of Neoplatonism and the Arts". The Sixteenth Century Journal. 36 (1): 248–249. ISSN 0361-0160.
- Review of Edward Burne-Jones on Nature
- Mann, Fiona (2015). "Review of Edward Burne-Jones' Mythical Paintings: The Pygmalion of the Pre-Raphaelite Painters". The Burlington Magazine. 157 (1346): 358–358. ISSN 0007-6287.
- Review of Essays on Women Artists
- Birnbaum, Paula (2005). "Review of Singular Women: Writing the Artist; Essays on Women Artists, "The Most Excellent"". Woman's Art Journal. 26 (2): 50–53. doi:10.2307/3598101. ISSN 0270-7993.
- Review of Self-portraits by Women Painters
- Dwyer, Britta C. (2002). "Review of Seeing Ourselves: Women's Self-Portraits; Self-Portraits by Women Painters; Mirror Mirror: Self-Portraits by Women Artists". Woman's Art Journal. 23 (1): 42–46. doi:10.2307/1358970. ISSN 0270-7993.