Lilian H. Zirpolo received her Ph.D. in Art History from Rutgers University in 1994. She is the author of Ave Papa/Ave Papabile: The Sacchetti Family, Their Art Patronage, and Political Aspirations (Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2005), The Historical Dictionary of Renaissance Art (Lanham: Scarecrow Press, 2008), and The Historical Dictionary of Baroque Art and Architecture (Lanham: Scarecrow Press, 2010). Her articles and book reviews have been published in the Gazette des Beaux-Arts, Architectura, Drawing, the Woman’s Art Journal, Augustinian Studies, Renaissance Quarterly, Sixteenth Century Studies, Art History, and Explorations in Renaissance Culture. She was co-publisher and co-editor of Aurora, The Journal of the History of Art for eleven years and is the editor for the WAPACC Text and Studies Series.
