About the Author

John B. Nici has a master’s degree in art history and is retired from teaching at both Lawrence High School in Cedarhurst, New York and at Queens College in Flushing, New York. In 2004 he was the recipient of Queens College’s President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching by Adjunct Faculty. He has published extensively on art history pedagogy and has presented and published scholarly papers on topics that include Byzantine art, Piero della Francesca, and Delacroix. He is the author of Famous Works of Art—and How They Got That Way.