Previously, she won research grants and awards at international institutions (British Academy, Italian Academy at Columbia University, EHESS in Paris), was a Scientific Assistant at the Warburg Institute, and taught Renaissance Studies at University College London.

Director of a European Research Council (ERC)-funded project on The Normativity of Sacred Images in Early Modern Europe. Her major publications include Storia del Limbo, Feltrinelli, 2017; Chapels in Roman Churches of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, edited with Patrizia Tosini and Steven F. Ostrow, Officina Libraria, 2020; Sacred Images and Normativity: Contested Forms in Early Modern Art, Brepols, 2020.