I joined the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance at Warwick in April 2020 as a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow (2020-2023). The research project I worked on, entitled ‘Morally Ambiguous Ancient Women in European Art, c. 1350-1620’, investigated the literary and iconographic tradition during the medieval and Renaissance period of women from antiquity who defied contemporary social expectations by exercising ‘masculine’ virtues or vices, such as strength, courage and ambition. In addition, I served as co-convenor (with Dr Tom Pert ) of the Renaissance Europe UG modules (2020-2023) and as co-organizer (with Dr Rich Rabone) of the STVDIO Seminar Series (2021-2023).

My area of expertise lies in Renaissance Italian art, with an emphasis on iconography, the relationship between texts and images, and the transmission of ancient visual motifs in European art and culture. I hold a PhD from the Warburg Institute, and a BA (Hons) and MA in History of Art from the Ca’ Foscari University, Venice. I have been lecturing for years both in academia and museums, teaching across a range of areas and periods in Italian art history spanning from the fourteenth to the mid-twentieth century. I was a Visiting and Associate Lecturer in Renaissance and Baroque to Neoclassical Art at Buckingham and Bath Spa Universities (2016-2019), a Teaching Assistant at the Warburg Institute (2014), and worked for three years at the Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art as an Education and Exhibition Assistant (2008-2011). Before joining Warwick, I was a Research Fellow at the Center for Italian Modern Art, New York (Fall 2019), where I researched the sculpture of twentieth-century Italian artist Marino Marini in light of its appropriation and reinterpretation of models from antiquity, particularly from ancient Etruria and Egypt.

I have published extensively in the fields of the classical tradition and fourteenth- to eighteenth-century art history, contributing essays, articles and catalogue entries to a number of edited volumes, journals, exhibition catalogues and conference proceedings. My first monograph on the reception of the myth of Alexander the Great in Renaissance Italian art, based on my doctoral dissertation, was published in December 2022.