Francesca Fiorani is a professor
of art history at the University of Virginia, where she
has served as associate dean for the arts and humanities
and chair of the art department. A leading authority
on Renaissance art and the application of computer
technology to the humanities, she is the creator of the
digital platform Leonardo da Vinci and His Treatise on
Painting and the author of The Marvel of Maps: Art,
Cartography and Politics in Renaissance Italy.