In 1997 Anderson was appointed Herald Chair of Fine Arts at the University of Melbourne, a post she held until 2014.[3] Her monograph on Giorgione (1996/7) remains one of the most authoritative studies of the artist.[4]
In 2008 Anderson was elected president of the International Committee of the History of Art (Comité International d'Histoire de l'Art, CIHA), in which role she developed global art history until 2012.[6]
In 2009 she was appointed Foundation Director of the Australian Institute of Art History.[7][8]
In 2015 she received an Italian knighthood from the
President of the Republic of Italy, the only art historian to have been awarded the Order of the Star of Italy (Ufficiale dell’Ordine della Stella d’Italia), for her outstanding contribution to the study of Venetian art history, especially Giorgione.[9]
Giorgione: The Painter of Poetic Brevity, Paris/New York, 1997.[11]
Collecting, Connoisseurship and the Art Market in Risorgimento Italy: Giovanni Morelli’s Letters to Giovanni Melli and Pietro Zavaritt (1866 - 1872), Venice, Istituto Veneto, 1999.
Crossing Cultures: Conflict, Migration and Convergence. The Proceedings of the 32nd International Congress in the History of Art, The Miegunyah Press, Melbourne University Publishing, Melbourne, 2009.[13]
The Cambridge Companion to Australian Art, Cambridge, 2011.[14]
Giuseppe Molteni in Correspondence with Giovanni Morelli - The Restoration of Renaissance Painting in mid nineteenth-century Milan, Florence 2014.
The Creation of Indigenous Collections in Melbourne: How Kenneth Clark, Charles Mountford, and Leonhard Adam Interrogated Australian Indigeneity.
Musée du Quai Branly, Paris
Unconstrained Passions. The Architect’s House as a Museum,
Lyon Housemuseum, 2016
'The Life of Giovanni Morelli in Risorgimento Italy', [{Officina Libraria, Milan}], 2019Review by Brown, David Alan, [title+Review of The life of Giovanni Morelli in Risorgimento Italy]The Burlington Magazine, 163, January 2021, pages 88–89.
'The Invention of Melbourne. A Baroque Archbishop and a Gothic Architect', edited by Jaynie Anderson, Max Vodola and Shane Carmody, 2019, reprinted 2020.
^Jaynie Anderson,'CIHA as the Object of Art History', in The Challeng
e of the Object. Die Herausforderund des Objekts, in 32. Wissenschaftlicher Beiband zum Anzeiger des Germanischen Nationalmuseums, Proceedings of the 33rd Congress of the International Committee of the History of Art, 15 – 20 July, Nürnberg, volume 4 (2014), pp. 1474-1476.