Amy Neff

Over her long career, Amy Neff has been committed to studying the role of images in reflecting and creating cultural ideologies, focusing on intersections of art, religion, and gender in medieval culture. Professor Emerita in the School of Art at The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, she is the author of numerous studies in medieval art history. Many of her publications explore the iconography of Mary and the impact of the Franciscan movement on the arts, including essays in Art Bulletin,...See more

Over her long career, Amy Neff has been committed to studying the role of images in reflecting and creating cultural ideologies, focusing on intersections of art, religion, and gender in medieval culture. Professor Emerita in the School of Art at The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, she is the author of numerous studies in medieval art history. Many of her publications explore the iconography of Mary and the impact of the Franciscan movement on the arts, including essays in Art Bulletin, Arte Veneta, Gesta, the Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, and Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz, as well as in several edited collections. She has contributed to two major exhibition catalogues, Byzantium: Faith and Power, 1261-1557 (2004), held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Sanctity Pictured: The Art of the Dominican and Franciscan Orders in Renaissance Italy (2014), at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville. The recipient of the Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome, she has also been awarded fellowships by the Center for Advanced Studies of the National Gallery of Art, the Harvard University Center for Renaissance Studies at Villa I Tatti, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. See less