Jaynie Anderson

In the 2021 Queen's Birthday Honours Anderson was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia for "significant service to tertiary education, particularly to art history in Australia".

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 2009 she was appointed Foundation Director of the Australian Institute of Art History.

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.

Anderson was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 1999.

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.

She studied at the University of Melbourne and Bryn Mawr College, Philadelphia. In 1970 she was elected the first woman Rhodes Fellow at St Hugh's College, Oxford. She remained as a lecturer in art history at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, from 1975 to 1996.

Jaynie Louise Anderson AM FAHA OSI (born 15 December 1944) is an Australian art historian, writer and curator of exhibitions, known for her publications and exhibitions on Giorgione and Venetian painting. Anderson is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Melbourne. She was the Herald Chair of Fine Arts at the University of Melbourne 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.