I am currently engaged in two projects that seek to reveal how art intertwined with the disciplines of ecclesiastical computus and practical astronomy. The first, a monograph titled Seeing Time, based on my doctoral dissertation, investigates how painted and sculpted decorations in Italian churches were strategically illuminated to align with solar cycles and religious calendars. The second project, Palaces of the Sun (provisional title), traces how the observational and manual techniques that supported this artistic practice were developed and transmitted (both textually and materially) across the Mediterranean.

I received my PhD from the Courtauld Institute of Art, following an M.A. in ‘Art History, Curatorship, and Renaissance Culture’ from the Warburg Institute, and a B.A. from Sapienza University of Rome. My research has been supported by fellowships at the Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History (research group: ‘Visualizing Science in Media Revolutions’), the University of Hamburg (‘Imaginarien der Kraft’), and the Nederlands Interuniversitair Kunsthistorisch Instituut (NIKI) in Florence. Before joining Vienna, I was a postdoctoral fellow in the PRIN project ‘Hidden in Plain Sight: the Metalwork Altarpieces of Medieval Venetia’ at Bocconi University, Milan. I have previously taught medieval and Renaissance art at the Courtauld, the University of Oxford (Department for Continuing Education), and the University of Milan.

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