Dr. Cheney


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Professional Presentations

Papers Delivered:

-"Giorgio Vasari: Vita," South-Central Renaissance Conference, St. Louis, MO, April 5-7, 2002.

-"The Garden of Adonis in The Dream of Poliphilo," RSA, Tempe, AZ, March 23-27, 2002.

-"Giulia Lama: Paintings and Drawings" College Art Association, Chicago, Ill, February 20-24, 2002.

-"Giorgio Vasari: Arte e Lavoro," University of Georgia, Atlanta, GA, November 16-17, 2001.

-"Josefa de Ayala D'Óbidos' Agnus Dei," SECAC, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, October 23-26, 2001. 

-"The Muses in Corot's Atelier," International Congress, Mediterranean Studies Association, Aix-Provence, France, May 24-29, 2001.

-"Burne-Jones' Romance de la Rose," International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, May 3-5, 2001.

-"Giorgio Vasari's Studiolo," South-Central Renaissance Conference, University of Texas, College Station, April 5-7, 2001.

-"The Garden of Love in The Dream of Poliphilo," RSA, Chicago, March 29-31, 2001.

-"Giorgio Vasari's Patience: An Allegory of Time," International Conference on Astronomy, Palermo, Sicily, January 1-6, 2001.

-"Calliope the Muse of Poetry," Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Cleveland, November 1-4, 2000.

-"Clio and the Arts: A Vasarian Allegory," SECAC, Louisville University, KY, October 23-26, 2000.

-"Botticelli's Interpretation of Antiquity," International Conference on Fifteenth-Century Studies, Antwerp, Belgium, July 27-30, 2000.

-"Christine de Pizan's Emblematic Images," International Conference, Glasgow, Great Britain, July 2-7, 2000.

-"Paolo Rego's Murals," International Congress, Mediterranean Studies Association, Bahia El Salvador, Brazil, May 24-28, 2000.

-"Christine de Pizan's Self-Portraits," International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, May 4-6, 2000.

-"Giorgio Vasari: Santa Maria del Fiore," South-Central Renaissance Conference, University of Southwestern Louisiana, Lafayette LA, April 6-8, 2000.

-"Giorgio Vasari and Dante," Renaissance Society of America, Florence, Italy, March 22-26, 2000.

-"Burne-Jones' Images of Cupid and Pysche," College Art Association, New York, February 23-26, 2000.

-"The Emblems of the Accademia della Crusca," International Emblem Conference, Munich, Germany, August 8-14, 1999.

-"Greek Theater: The Law of the Mask," International Conference on the Theater, Olympia, Greece, July 1-6, 1999.

-"Religious Paintings of Josefa de Ayala D'Óbidos," International Mediterranean Studies Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, May 26-30, 1999.

-"Dante's Inferno and Vasari's Last Judgment," at the Dante Society Conference, International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, May 6-8, 1999.

-"Lavinia Fontana and The Antique," Women's Patronage Conference, New York Public Library, March 26-29, 1999.

-"Vasari and Cosmology," International Conference on Astronomy, La Valetta, Malta, January 7-14, 1999.

-"The Self-Portraits of Elisabetta Sirani," Southern-Central Renaissance Conference, Savannah College of Arts and Design, April 8-10, 1999.

-"Giorgio Vasari's Ages of Life, " Renaissance Society of America, Los Angeles, CA, March 22-24, 1999.

-"Dante's Inferno and Sixteenth-Century Illustrations," Sixteenth-Century Studies Conference, Toronto, Canada, October 24-26, 1998.

-"Edward Burne-Jones' Mythological Paintings: Visions of Love," International Society for the Classical Tradition (ISCT), Tübingen University, Germany, July 29-August 2, 1998.

-"Giorgio Vasari's Neoplatonic Theory of Art," International Neoplatonic Conference, University of Crete, Crete, July 24-28, 1998.

-"Concealments and Revelations in Josefa de Ayala D'Óbidos' Self-Portraits," International Mediterranean Studies Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, May 27-31, 1998.

-"Lavinia Fontana's Self-Portraits," National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C. May 9, 1998.

-"Giorgio Vasari's Seasons," Southern Central Renaissance Conference, Baylor University, Waco, Texas, April 2-4, 1998.

-"Dante's Inferno and Renaissance Last Judgments," Medieval and Renaissance Studies Conference, New College of the South Florida University, March 12-14, 1998.

-"Correggio's Allegories of Virtues and Vices," Medieval and Renaissance Studies Conference, New College of the South, March 12-14, 1998.

-"Giorgio Vasari's Love Poems: ut pictura poesis," Association for Textual Scholarship in Art History, College Art Association, Toronto, February 26-29, 1998.

-"Concealments and Revelations by Mannerist Self-Portrtaits," Identity and Gender Conference, University of Miami, Florida, February 20-22, 1998.

-"Giorgio Vasari's Peace," Arizona State University Conference (ACMRS), Tempe, Arizona, February 12-14, 1998.

-"Self-Portraits by Sixteenth-Century Painters," Women's Studies Conference, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, February 12-14, 1998.

-"Ut pictura kiness: Painting as Film, Film as Painting," The Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, January 28-30, 1998.

-"Dante's poema sacro in Renaissance Imagery," Symposium on Aspects of Dante's Divine Comedy," University of Massachusetts Lowell, November 12, 1997.

-"The Myth of Andromeda in Venetian Paintings," Southeastern College Art Association, Richmond, VA, October 26-28, 1997.

-"Italian Byzantine Mosaic in Ravenna: Visibility and Invisibility," Greek Cultural Institute of Boston, October 20, 1997.

-"Caravaggio's Sicilian Sojourn," Patristic, Mediaevel and Renaissance Studies Conference, The Augustianian Historical Institute, Villanova, PA, September 12-14, 1997.

-"Giorgio Vasari's Theory of Art and His Decorative Cycles," University of Bologna (Italy), June 6, 1997.

-"The Imprese of Camilo Camili," Emblem Society Conference at International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, May 6-8, 1997.

-"Giorgio Vasari's Saint Jerome and the Emblematic Tradition, Renaissance Society of American, Vancouver, Canada, April 4-6, 1997.

-"Self-Portraits of Renaissance Painters," South Central Renaissance Conference, Austin, Texas, March 20-22, 1997.

-"Frederick Sandy's Enchantresses: Morbidity and Clairvoyancy as Sources of Fin-de- siècle Decadence," College Art Association, New York, February 12-15, 1997.

-"Dante's Commedia in Renaissance Imagery," Dante and Art Symposium, SUNY/Coutland, November 14, 1996.

-"Giorgio Vasari Depictions of Saint Jerome," Sixteenth-Century Studies Conference, St. Louis, MO, October 26, 1996.

-"Giorgio Vasari's Ritratti and the Antique," Southeastern College Art Association, Charlestown, SC, October 22, 1996.

-"Self-Portraits of Female Renaissance Painters," International Art History Conference on Memory and Oblivion, Amsterdam, Holland, September 2-8, 1996.

-Vasari's Ages of Life, International Emblem Congress, Leuven, Belgium, August 18-23. 1996

-Vasari's Seven Deadly Sins, International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, England, July 8-11, 1996.

-"Vasari's Planetary Gods," Emblem Society Conference at International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, May 8-12, 1996.

-"Arpino's Andromeda," Medieval and Renaissance Conference, New College USF, Sarasota, March 14-16, 1996.

-"Vasari's Allegory of Avarice, "Renaissance Society of America, Bloomington, Indiana, April 18-21, 1996.

-"Vasari's Patience," Emblem Society Conference at International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, May 4-6, 1995.

-"Emblematic Approach in the Paintings of Giorgio Vasari: Justice," Second Minnesota Conference on Cultural Emblematics, University of Minnesota, April 27-29, 1995.

"-Giorgio Vasari's Interpretation of the Classical Tradition," Southern Central Renaissance Conference, University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, April 6-8, 1995.

-"Giorgio Vasari's Theory of Beauty," Renaissance Society of American Conference, New York City, March 31-April 2, 1995.

-"Giorgio Vasari and and Antiquity," International Society for the Classical Tradition, Boston University, March 8-10, 1995

-"Burne-Jones's Mythological Paintings: Andromeda," Pre-Raphaelite Symposium: Interdisciplinary Contexts," University of Massachusetts Lowell, February 16, 1995.

-"Mannerism: Reflections On A Labyrinthian World," College Art Association of America, San Antonio, Texas, January 26-28, 1995.

-"Giorgio Vasari's Andromeda," Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Toronto, Canada, October 20-24, 1994.

-"Giorgio Vasari's Sala dei Cento Giorni: The Ideal City," International Conference on Architecture and the Emblem, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, October 20-22, 1994.

-"Giorgio Vasari's Interpretation of Art, Nature, and Rebirth in the Lives," International Medieval and Renaissance Conference, University of Leeds, England, July 4-8, 1994.

-"Burne-Jones's Mythological Paintings: The Sirens," The Pre-Raphaelite and Its Circle International Conference, Baylor University, April 21-23, 1994.

-"Emblematic Approaches to Sixteenth Century Art: Giorgio Vasari's Hieroglyphics," Renaissance Society of American Conference, University of North Texas, Dallas April 7-10, 1994.

-"Burne-Jones's Interpretation of Botticelli's Imagery," Medieval and Renaissance Studies Conference, New College of the South Florida University, March 10-12, 1994.

-Giorgio Vasari's The Toilette of Venus: Theory of Beauty, "Medieval and Renaissance Studies Conference, New College of the South Florida University, March 12-14, 1994.

-"Caravaggio's Sicilian Works," International Mediterranean Conference, Syracuse, Sicily, July 8-12, 1993.

-"Cesare d'Arpino and Cesare Ripa: The Iconography of Villa Lante," Third International Emblem Conference, University of Pittsburgh, August 16-19, 1993.

-"Cavalier d'Arpino's Justice and Liberality," Emblem Society Conference, International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, May 6-8, 1993.

-"Giorgio Vasari's Judith and Holofernes: Athena or Aphrodite?" Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, St. Louis Missouri, December 6-9, 1993.

-"Joan Miro"s Influnece on Modern American Art," International Mediterranean Conference, Palma de Mallorca, July 10-17, 1992.

-"Cesare d'Arpino and Cesare Ripa's Iconologia," International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, May 7-10, 1992.

-"Vasari's Muses," International Conference on Aspects of Renaissance and Baroque Symbol Theory (1500-1700), University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, May 1-3, 1992.

-"Rodin, Dante and Jeremiah," American Association of Italian Studies," University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, April 8-10, 1992.

-"Cesare d'Arpino and Cesare Ripa's collaboration,"Southeastern Renaissance Conference, University of Birmingham, March 26-28, 1992.

-"Vasari's Sala," Medieval and Renaissance Studies Conference, New College of the South Florida University, March 12-14, 1992.

-"Giorgio Vasari's Sala Farnese: Art as Propaganda," Universites Art Association of Canada Conference, University of Victoria, November 12-14, 1992.

-"Vasari: Maniera and Rebirth," in Mannerism: Historiography, Art and Art Theories, Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Penn State University, Philadelphia, October 7-10, 1991.

-"Dutch Symbolism in Vanitas Paintings," Interdisciplinary Symposium on 17th Century Dutch Art and Life, Hofstra University, New York, Mary 7, 1991.

-"Cavalier d'Arpino's Justice and Liberality," Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association Conference, University of Colorado, Boulder, April 18-20, 1991.

-"Giorgio Vasari's 'Idea of Rebirth'," Renaissance Society of American Conference, Duke University, Durham, April 11-13, 1991.

-"Rodin's Gates of Hell: An Interpretation of Dante's Poema Sacro," Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, November, 9-11, 1991.

-"Vasari's Pictorial Musing on the Muses: The Chamber of Apollo of the Casa Vasari," Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, St. Louis, Missouri, October 25-27, 1991.

-"Images of Feminine Subjugation," Commentator, Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, St. Louis, Missouri, October 25-27, 1991.

-"Botticelli's Mars and Venus : Bees and Honey," Fifteenth Century Studies, International Congress Perprignan, France, July 2-7, 1990.

-"Cesare d'Arpino and Cesare Ripa: ut pictura poesis," European Renaissance National Traditions: An Interdisciplinary International Conference, Glasgow, Scotland, August 8-12, 1990.

-"Emblematic Approaches in the Paintings of Giorgio Vasari," Emblematic Studies, International Congress Glasgow, Scotland, August 13-17, 1990.

-"Botticelli and Dante: ut pictura poesis," AAIS Conference, University of Virginia, April 20-22, 1990.

-"Love and Agony in the Renaissance," Renaissance Society of America, University of Toronto, Canada, April 5-7, 1990.

-"Botticelli's Mythological Paintings," Southern Central Renaissance Conference, Memphis State University, Tennessee, March 22-24, 1990.

-"The Theme of Love and Death," Medieval and Renaissance Studies, New College of the South Florida University, March 8-10, 1990.

-"Burne-Jones: Mannerist in an Age of Modernism," College Art Association of America, New York, February 12-15, 1990.

-"The Role of St. Agatha in Art and Literature," South-Central Conference on Christianity and Literature, New Orleans, February 8-10, 1990.

-"Vasari and The Accademia del Disegno," Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, University of Minneapolis, October 26-28, 1989.

-"The Cult of St. Agatha," CEMERS Conference, SUNY-Binghamton, New York, October, 20-21, 1989.

-"Female Self-Portraits of the Renaissance," Novus et Antiquus, Interdisciplinary CAES Conference, Ball State University, October, 16-18, 1989.

-"Vasari's Academy of Art," Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Conference, Northern Arizona University, April 21-23, 1989.

-"The Role of St. Agatha in Art and Literature," South-Central Conference on Christianity and Literature, New Orleans, February 8-10, 1990.

-"Vasari and the Cappella degli Artisti," AAIS Conference, University of Lowell, April 13-16, 1989.

-"Vasari's Neapolitan Sojourn," Neapolitan Splendor (Art History Lecture Series), Pennsylvania State University, November 29-30, 1988.

-"Vasari and Pliny," Novus et Antiquus, Interdisciplinary CAES Conference, Ball State University, October 21-22, 1988.

-"Emblematic Approach in the Paintings of Giorgio Vasari," Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, St. Louis, Missouri, October 15-17, 1988.

-"Giorgio Vasari's Sala dei Cento Giorni: A Farnese Celebration," Medieval Renaissance Conference II, University of Virginia, September 22-24, 1988.

-"Milton and Poussin: Parallel Lives," Third International Conference on Milton, Florence (Italy), June 6-10, 1988.

-"Giorgio Vasari's Masquerades," Ninth Fantastic International Conference, Florida Atlantic University, March 15-17, 1988.

-"Giorgio Vasari's Sala dei Cento Giorni," Renaissance Conference, New College of the South Florida University, March 6-8, 1988.

-"Simia Dei in Bosch's Last Judgments," Conference on Evil, Atlanta University, November 6-8, 1987.

-"Giorgio Vasari's Cenacoli," The Sixteenth Century Conference, University of Arizona, October 28-30, 1987.

-"Giorgio Vasari's Early Decorative Cycles," Southern Eastern Renaissance Conference, University of Tennessee, October 15-17, 1987.

-"Dutch Portraits of Vanitas," Southern Eastern Renaissance Conference, University of Tennessee, October 15-17, 1987.

-"Giorgio Vasari's Refectories," Medieval and Renaissance Conference, University of Virginia, September 23-25, 1987.

-"The Doctor in Dutch and Flemish Paintings," Eighth Fantastic International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, University of Texas, Houston, March 14-19, 1987.

-"Self-Portraits of Renaissance Female Painters," Renaissance Conference of America, University of Arizona, Tucson, March 12-14, 1987.

-"Concealment and Revelation in Female Portraiture," National WCA Conference, Boston, February 10-12, 1987.

-"Barbara Longhi of Ravenna," Southern Eastern Renaissance Conference, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, October 24-28, 1986.

-"Botticelli's Mars and Venus: Bees and Honey," How is Art History Conference, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, April 4-6, 1986.

-"Angels in Mannerist Paintings: St. Michael the Archangel," Seventh Fantastic International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, University of Texas, Houston, March 10-14, 1986.

-"Botticelli's Mars and Venus: A nuptial celebration," Medieval and Renaissance Conference, New College of the South Florida University, March 6-8, 1986.

-"Marcillat's Fresco Paintings for the Cathedral of Arezzo," Southern Eastern Renaissance Conference, University of Louisiana, New Orleans, October 24-26, 1985.

-"The Offering of the Oyster in Dutch Genre Paintings," Netherlandish Conference, University of Pittsburgh, October 10-12, 1985.

-"The Fair Lady and the Virgin in Pre-Raphaelite Iconography," Medieval Conference, Plymouth, New Hampshire, April 26-27, 1985.

-"The Drawings of Botticelli in Dante's Divine Comedy," Sixth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, University of Texas, March 13-16, 1985.

-"Agony and Bliss of Motherhood in Lavinia Fontana's Holy Family," Wellesley College, November 27, 1984.

-"Whistler and Venice," Italian Historical Society of Boston, Harvard Divinity School, November 15, 1984.

-"Pliny's Stories in Vasari's Paintings of the Casa Aretine," Conference on Greece and Italy, State University of New York at New Platz, October 20, 1984.

-"Patrick Keely: New England Architect," CEMERS Conference, SUNY-Binghamton, New York, October 19, 1984.

-"Marianne von Recklinghausen Bowles: Fantastic Images," Women's Caucus for Art/Boston, Boston University, May 20, 1984.

-"Locks, Tresses and Manes," Pre-Raphaelite Symposium, University of Lowell, April 18, 1984.

-"The Stained Glass Windows of S. Joseph the Worker Shrine," Medieval Conference, Plymouth State College, Plymouth, New Hampshire, April 14, 1984.

-"Marianne von Recklinghausen Bowles: Symbolic Triptychs," Fifth International Fantastic Conference in the Arts, Florida Atlantic University, March 24, 1984.

-"The Paintings of the Casa Vasari," Renaissance Conference, New College of the South Florida University, March 10, 1984.

-"Whistler's Harbors and Waterways," Whistler Symposium, Whistler House, Lowell, November 18, 1983.

-"Love and Death Themes in Funerary Art of Milan, Genova, and Verona," Fourth International Fantastic Conference, Florida Atlantic University, March 25, 1983.

-"The Churches of Lowell," Medieval Conference, Plymouth State College, Plymouth, New Hampshire, April 10, 1983.

-"Simia Dei in Hieronimous Bosch Infernal Paintings," Third International Fantastic Conference, Florida Atlantic University, March 22, 1982.

-"Giovanni Segantini's Motherly Love Fantasy," Third International Fantastic Conference, Florida Atlantic University, March 22, 1982.

-"Teaching Art History in Interdisciplinary Programs," National Educational Conference, May 1981.

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