Cecily Jane Hennessy, FSA, is the Academic Director of Christie's Education, London. She has promoted studies on the imagery of children and is an authority on the representation of children, adolescents and the family in

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. Her book, Images of Children in Byzantium, published in 2008, has been followed by many articles and essays on children, adolescents and the family in Byzantium, on middle and late Byzantine manuscripts, and on the architecture, topography and paintings of Constantinople, Ravenna and Jerusalem. She has also published, for a general audience, Painting in Cappadocia: A Guide to the Sites and Byzantine Church Decoration, in 2013 and Early Christian and Medieval Rome: A Guide to the Art and Architecture, in 2017. She completed her PhD thesis at the

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in 2001. In November 2016 she was elected a fellow of the

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Selected publications

Books

*''Images of Children in Byzantium'', Ashgate, 2008. *''Painting in Cappadocia: A Guide to the Sites and Byzantine Church Decoration'', Cecily Hennessy Publications, 2013. *''Early Christian and Medieval Rome: A Guide to the Art and Architecture,'' Cecily Hennessy Publications, 2017.

Contributions

* The Early Christian and Byzantine entries, ''30,000 years of Art'', Phaidon, 2007. * The Early Christian and Byzantine entries, ''10,000 years of Art'', Phaidon, 2009. * The Byzantine entries, ''The Art Museum'', Phaidon, 2011.

References

Christie's people Living people Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London Alumni of the Courtauld Institute of Art Academics of the Courtauld Institute of Art Year of birth missing (living people) Female auctioneers Historians of Byzantine art Women Byzantinists Women medievalists {{UK-art-historian-stub