Laurie Schneider Adams received her Ph.D. in Art History from Columbia University. She is Professor of Art History at John Jay College, CUNY, and the Graduate Center. She has published articles on iconography, as well as on art and psychology. She is the editor of Giotto in Perspective and of the journal Source: Notes in the History if Art. Her books include A History of Western Art; The Methodologies of Art; Art and Psychoanalysis; Art on Trial; Federico da Montefeltro and Sigismondo Malatesta: the Eagle and the Elephant (with Maria Grazia Pernis); Italian Renaissance Art; Key Monuments of the Baroque; Key Monuments of the Italian Renaissance; Lucrezia Tornabuoni de' Medici and the Medici Family in the Fifteenth Century (with Maria Grazia Pernis); Exploring the Humanities; Looking at Art; The Making and Meaning of Art; and five children’s books (with Allison Coudert).