Professor Jaynie Anderson FAHA
University of Melbourne
jaynie@unimelb.edu.au
Qualifications: BA Hons (Melb), PhD (Bryn Mawr)
Year Elected to the Academy: 1999
Discipline: The Arts, European Languages & Cultures
Expertise: Renaissance and Australian art history

Jaynie Anderson FAHA CIHA is Herald Professor of Fine Arts at the University of Melbourne, President of the International Committee of the History of Art (CIHA), and in 2009 was appointed Founding Director of the Australian Institute of Art History. Her research interests are primarily Venetian Renaissance Painting and the history of restoration and collecting. Her most recent books are Tiepolo’s Cleopatra, Palgrave Macmillan, 2003, the catalogue of the exhibition held at the National Gallery of Art, Washington and the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Belliini, Giorgione and Titian: The Renaissance of Venetian Painting, 2006. She has been a visiting fellow at the John Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, the National Gallery of Art, Washington, the Harvard Centre for Renaissance Studies in Florence, I Tatti, and the Institut National de l’Histoire de l’Art, Paris. She was the convenor of the 32nd International Congress of the History of Art, Crossing Cultures: Conflict, Migration and Convergence, held at the University of Melbourne from 13-18 January 2008, the proceedings of which were published in 2009 by Miegunyah, Melbourne University Publishing. Her most recent book is the Cambridge Companion to Australian Art, 2011.