Cecily Hennessy

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]

  1. ^ "Dr Cecily Hennessy". www.christies.edu. Retrieved 30 April 2021.
  2. ^ "Images of Children in Byzantium". Routledge & CRC Press. Retrieved 29 April 2021.
  3. ^ "Painting in Cappadocia: A Guide to the Sites and Byzantine Church Decoration". Blackwells.co.uk. Archived from the original on 30 April 2021. Retrieved 30 April 2021.
  4. ^ "Early Christian and Medieval Rome: A Guide to the Art and Architecture". blackwells.co.uk. Retrieved 29 April 2021.
  5. ^ "Dr Cecily Hennessy". Society of Antiquaries of London. Retrieved 30 April 2021.