Cecily Hennessy

Cecily Jane Hennessy, FSA, is programme director, Art and Collecting: Antiquity to Renaissance at Christie's Education in London. She is an authority on paintings of children in Byzantium. 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.

Books

• Images of Children in Byzantium, Ashgate, 2008. ISBN 978-0754656319
• Painting in Cappadocia: A Guide to the Sites and Byzantine Church Decoration, Cecily Hennessy Publications, 2013. ISBN 978-0957662803

Contributions

• The Early Christian and Byzantine entries, 30,000 years of Art, Phaidon, 2007.
• The Early Christian and Byzantine entries, 10,000 years of Art, Phaidon, 2009.
• The Byzantine entries, The Art Museum, Phaidon, 2011.