Jaynie Louise Anderson AM FAHA OSI (born 15 December 1944)[1] is an Australian art historian, writer and curator of exhibitions, known for her publications and exhibitions on Giorgione and Venetian painting.
In 1970 she was elected the first woman Rhodes Fellow at St Hugh's College, Oxford.
[2] In 1997 Anderson was appointed Herald Chair of Fine Arts at the University of Melbourne, a post she held until 2014.
[5] 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.
[7][8] 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.