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Jaynie Louise Anderson OSI (born 15 December 1944) is an Australian
art historian Art history is the study of artistic works made throughout human history. Among other topics, it studies art’s formal qualities, its impact on societies and cultures, and how artistic styles have changed throughout history. Traditionally, the ...
, writer and curator of exhibitions, known for her publications and exhibitions on Giorgione and Venetian painting. Anderson is a
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at the
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. She was the Herald Chair of Fine Arts at the
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from 1997 until 2014, and was President of International Committee of the History of Art ( Comité International d'Histoire de l'Art, CIHA) from 2008 to 2012.


Academic career

She studied at the
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and
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, Philadelphia. In 1970 she was elected the first woman Rhodes Fellow at
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. She remained as a lecturer in art history at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, from 1975 to 1996. In 1997 Anderson was appointed Herald Chair of Fine Arts at the University of Melbourne, a post she held until 2014. Her monograph on Giorgione (1996/7) remains one of the most authoritative studies of the artist. Anderson was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 1999. In 2008 Anderson was elected president of the International Committee of the History of Art (Comité International d'Histoire de l'Art, CIHA), in which role she developed global art history until 2012.Jaynie Anderson,'CIHA as the Object of Art History', in The Challeng e of the Object. Die Herausforderund des Objekts, in 32. Wissenschaftlicher Beiband zum Anzeiger des Germanischen Nationalmuseums, Proceedings of the 33rd Congress of the International Committee of the History of Art, 15 – 20 July, Nürnberg, volume 4 (2014), pp. 1474-1476. In 2009 she was appointed Foundation Director of the Australian Institute of Art History. In 2015 she received an Italian knighthood from the President of the Republic of Italy, the only art historian to have been awarded the Order of the Star of Italy (Ufficiale dell’Ordine della Stella d’Italia), for her outstanding contribution to the study of Venetian art history, especially Giorgione. In the 2021 Queen's Birthday Honours Anderson was appointed a
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for "significant service to tertiary education, particularly to art history in Australia".


Writings

* ''Giorgione: The Painter of Poetic Brevity'', Paris/New York, 1997. * ''Collecting, Connoisseurship and the Art Market in Risorgimento Italy: Giovanni Morelli’s Letters to Giovanni Melli and Pietro Zavaritt'' (1866 - 1872), Venice, Istituto Veneto, 1999. * ''Tiepolo's Cleopatra, Melbourne: Palgrave Macmillan'', 2003. * ''Crossing Cultures: Conflict, Migration and Convergence. The Proceedings of the 32nd International Congress in the History of Art'', The Miegunyah Press, Melbourne University Publishing, Melbourne, 2009. * ''The Cambridge Companion to Australian Art'', Cambridge, 2011. * ''Giuseppe Molteni in Correspondence with Giovanni Morelli - The Restoration of Renaissance Painting in mid nineteenth-century Milan'', Florence 2014. * ''The Creation of Indigenous Collections in Melbourne: How Kenneth Clark, Charles Mountford, and Leonhard Adam Interrogated Australian Indigeneity''. Musée du Quai Branly, Paris * ''Unconstrained Passions. The Architect’s House as a Museum'', Lyon Housemuseum, 2016 *'The Life of Giovanni Morelli in Risorgimento Italy', [], 2019Review by Brown, David Alan, [title+Review of The life of Giovanni Morelli in Risorgimento Italy]The Burlington Magazine, 163, January 2021, pages 88–89. * 'The Invention of Melbourne. A Baroque Archbishop and a Gothic Architect', edited by Jaynie Anderson, Max Vodola and Shane Carmody, 2019, reprinted 2020.


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Jaynie Anderson
from the National Portrait Gallery (Australia) 88–89. {{DEFAULTSORT:Anderson, Jaynie 1944 births Living people Members of the Order of Australia Fellows of the Australian Academy of the Humanities University of Melbourne alumni Academic staff of the University of Melbourne Australian art historians Australian women art historians Australian art curators