Thesis: Elemental Rococo: Courtly Femininity and Ecology in Parisian Garden Pavilions (1690 – 1730)
Supervisor: Professor Katie Scott Advisor: Professor Joanna Woodall
Funded by: The Courtauld Scholarship
Education
2021- present: PhD candidate, 鶹TVվ of Art, London, U.K.
2018 – 2019: Master in History of Art, Special Option: Art, Object, Sense: Crossings in Anthropology and Art History. The Case of Eighteenth-Century France, 鶹TVվ of Art, London, U.K.
2016 – 2017: Erasmus Exchange Programme, University College London, London, U.K.
2014 – 2017: Bachelor in Arts in Literature and Cultural Heritage, Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna, Italy
Teaching Experience
Associate Lecturer – BA1 Topic Course “Architecture and Identity”, 鶹TVվ of Art (Autumn Term 2024/25)
Teaching Assistant – BA1 Foundations, 鶹TVվ of Art (Spring Term 2023/24)
Teaching Assistant – BA2/3 Elective Module “Architecture in London”, University College London (Spring Term 2023/24)
Teaching Assistant – The Courtauld Summer University (July 2023; July 2024)
‘The Outside Is Inside: Embodiment and the Humoral Theory in the Early Modern Period’, The Courtauld Summer School 2023
‘Performing Gender Identities: Normative Femininity in Baroque Paintings in the Courtauld Collection’, Summer School 2022
Conferences
‘Real, Painted, and Performed: Air at the Pavillon de l’Aurore 1671-1715’, “Elemental Thinking: New Approaches to Art and Landscape”, Association for Art History, (University of York), 9 April 2025.
‘Relaxing Yet Exciting: Vegetable gardens, rest and drogues in early eighteenth-century Parisian country retreats’, “Plants and Revolution”, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, (Online), 28 March 2025.
“Visual and Material Cultures of Air in Early Modern Courts”, The Renaissance Society of America, , 22 March 2025.
‘Unearthing Garden Connections: Horticulture and Soft-Paste Porcelain in 1700-1715 Garden Pavilions’, “Material and Visual Culture in the 17th and 18th Centuries Seminar Series”, MVC Research Cluster, University of Edinburgh (Online) 9 October 2024.
‘Snack, Host, Rest, Repeat: Marie-Adélaide de Savoie, duchesse de Bourgogne, at the Ménagerie de Versailles (1696-1712),’ The Third Year Research Student Symposium (The 鶹TVվ of Art), 16 May 2024.
‘Permeable Bodies: bathing and drinking practices at the Pavillon des Eaux Minérales of Chantilly 1729-1733,’ “Europe c.1580-c.1730: Telling Histories, Imagining Futures” Academic Colloquium (The 鶹TVվ of Art) 27 October 2023.
‘Unearthing Ecological Awareness: A Posthumanist Perspective on Soft-Paste Porcelain in c. 1690- 1710 Parisian Gardens’, “The Global Table in the 18th Century” (Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon) 17 October 2023.
‘Permeable Surfaces: The Pavillon de Blois at Bougival (1711-1715) through Water as Ornament, Symbol and Element,’ The Second Year Research Student Symposium (The 鶹TVվ of Art) 10 May 2023.
‘The Tapestries Collection of the Duc and the Duchesse du Maine: A Locus for Gender Appropriation and Translation in Early Eighteenth-Century Paris’, (New Hall Art Collection,Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge)28April 2022.
Grants
Association for Art History Grant, Winter 2025
RSA – Kress Travel Grant, 2025
Francis Haskell Memorial Fund, 2024
Mary Vidal Award, Historians of Eighteenth-Century Art & Architecture (HECAA), Spring 2024
Enhance Research England Grant (UKRI), 鶹TVվ of Art, 2023; 2024
Work Experience
2025: Curator, Private Collection, U.K.
2023 – 2024: Cataloguer of Fine Arts and Chattels, Private Collection, U.K.
2022: Research Assistant, Dr Ketty Gottardo and Prof Guido Rebecchini, 鶹TVվ of Art, London, U.K.
2021: Curatorial Intern, Dr Eva Fischer-Hausdorf,Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen, Germany
2020: Assistant Project Manager, Combat Prize 2020, Livorno, Italy