JAYNIE ANDERSON received an Italian Knighthood in 2015 from the President of the Republic of Italy for her outstanding contribution to the study of Venetian Renaissance Art, becoming an Ufficiale dell'Ordine della Stella d'Italia. From 1997 until 2014 Professor Anderson was Herald Chair of Fine Arts, and from 2008 until 2015 was the Foundation Director of the Australian Institute.
In 1997 she was appointed a fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (FAHA). She was president of the International Committee of Art History (2008-2012), the Comité Internationale de l’Histoire de l’Art (CIHA). She was educated at the University of Melbourne and Bryn Mawr College, Philadelpia, and was the first woman Rhodes Fellow at the University of Oxford. She has curated exhibitions at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, the Castello Sforzesco, Milan, the Poldi Pezzoli Museum, Milan, the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. She has been a visiting professorial fellow at the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, the Centre for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, Washington, and the Harvard Centre for Renaissance Studies, the Villa I Tatti. Her books include: Giorgione: The Painter of Poetic Brevity (1997); Collecting, Connoisseurship and the Art Market in Risorgimento Italy: Giovanni Morelli’s Letters to Giovanni Melli and Pietro Zavaritt, 1866 - 1872 (1999); Tiepolo's Cleopatra (2003); Crossing Cultures: Conflict, Migration and Convergence. The Proceedings of the 32nd International Congress in the History of Art (2009); The Cambridge Companion to Australian Art (2011); Giuseppe Molteni in Correspondence with Giovanni Morelli - The Restoration of Renaissance Painting in mid nineteenth-century Milan (2014). Anderson received a MAPDA award for 'Unconstrained Passions. The House of the Architect as a Museum in the Italian Past and the Australian Present', published in 2016. Her most recent books include: The Invention of Melbourne. A Baroque Archbishop and a Gothic Architect (2019) and The Biography of Giovanni Morelli in Risorgimento Italy (Italian edn. La vita di Giovanni Morelli nell’Italia risorgimentale (2019). Her portrait by Reshid Bey is in the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra.
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Honours, Awards and Fellowships
The Humanities Council for the World
The highest honour in the History of Art
Visiting Professor Villa I Tatti, Harvard Centre for Renaissance Studies
Professorial Fellow at Institut Nationale de l'histoire de l'art, Paris
FAHA - Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities
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Honorary
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Vice President
International Committee of the History of Art, CIHA
Board Member
Journal of Art Historiography
Executive Committee
Executive committee of CIPSH, UNESCO, International Council for Philosophy and the Human Sciences
Board Member
Board of Malraux Studies
President
International Committee of the History of Art, CIHA
Fellow Of Queen’S College
Fellow of Queen’s College, The University of Melbourne
Board Member
Board of Australian Book Review
Board Member
Board of Art Exhibitions Australia
Board Member
Director on the Board of the Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne
Advisory Boad Member
Advisory Board of Renaissance Studies. Journal of the Society for Renaissance Studies, Oxford University Press
Education
Doctor of Philosophy
Bryn Mawr College
Master of Arts
University of Oxford
Bachelor of Arts
University of Melbourne