Lilian H. Zirpolo received her PhD in art history from Rutgers University, New Jersey, in 1994. She specializes in the art of early modern Italy and Spain, with particular emphasis on Rome and patronage and gender issues. She has published extensively on these subjects at venues such as Architectura: Zeitschrift fur Geschichte der Baukunst, Agustinian Studies, The Seventeenth Century Journal, Gazette des Beaux-Arts, and the Woman’s Art Journal. She is a frequent book reviewer for the Woman’s Art Journal, Renaissance Quarterly, Art History, and Sixteenth Century Studies Journal. Her book, Ave Papa/Ave Papabile: The Sacchetti Family, Their Art Patronage, and Political Aspirations, for which she received a Samuel H. Kress Publication grant, was published in 2005. She is working on two new books, one on the art collecting activities of Queen Christina of Sweden and the other on Renaissance and Baroque ceiling paintings in Rome. She is also cofounder and president of the WAPACC Organization and cofounder, coeditor, and copublisher of Aurora, the Journal of the History of Art.