Cecily Hennessy Explained

Cecily Jane Hennessy, FSA, is the Academic Director of Christie's Education, London.[1] She has promoted studies on the imagery of children and is an authority on the representation of children, adolescents and the family  in Byzantium.

Her book, Images of Children in Byzantium,[2] 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,[3] in 2013 and Early Christian and Medieval Rome: A Guide to the Art and Architecture,[4] in 2017.

She completed her PhD thesis at the Courtauld Institute of Art in 2001. In November 2016 she was elected a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London.[5]

Selected publications

Books

Contributions

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Dr Cecily Hennessy. 2021-04-30. www.christies.edu.
  2. Web site: Images of Children in Byzantium. 2021-04-29. Routledge & CRC Press. en.
  3. Web site: Painting in Cappadocia: A Guide to the Sites and Byzantine Church Decoration. live. 2021-04-30. Blackwells.co.uk. en-US. https://web.archive.org/web/20210430084020/https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/Painting-in-Cappadocia-A-Guide-to-the-Sites-and-Byzantine-Church-Decoration-by-Hennessy-Cecily-Jane/9780957662803 . 2021-04-30 .
  4. Web site: Early Christian and Medieval Rome: A Guide to the Art and Architecture. 2021-04-29. blackwells.co.uk. en.
  5. Web site: Dr Cecily Hennessy. 2021-04-30. Society of Antiquaries of London. en-GB.

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