I graduated from the University of Bologna with a thesis on the iconography of the Garden of Eden and Heavenly Jerusalem in 15th-Century Italian and Flemish Art (2014, advisor: S. Cavicchioli). In 2018 I received my PhD in Art History from the University of Venice Ca’ Foscari with a dissertation titled The Portraits of the World. Personifications of the Oecumene in the Early Modern (supervisor: G. Fossaluzza, S. Salgaro).
I completed one postdoctoral year (2018-19) at the Center for 17th– and 18th– Century Studies at UCLA as an Ahmanson-Getty fellow and research associate with the project “Making Worlds: Art, Materiality, and Early Modern Globalization”, based at McGill University and directed by Bronwen Wilson (UCLA) and Angela Vanhaelen (McGill). Before returning to the University of Bologna, I was also Berenson Fellow at Harvard – Villa I Tatti (2021).
My Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellowship develops between UCLA (2022-23) and the University of Bologna (2024), working under the supervision of Sonia Cavicchioli and Bronwen Wilson. My research ANIMATE - Animation, Materials, Transcultural Ecologies: Performing Worlds at the Baroque Savoy Court of Christine of France investigates the courtly performances staged in Turin during the lifetime of the regent Christine of Bourbon-France (1606-1663). By exploring the albums - images and texts - created to commemorate these spectacles, I will situate them into the European and global context of changes of the early modern era.
