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Education

• 2014-present, PhD Candidate, 91ÖÆƬ³§
• 2012-2013,ÌýMA in History of Art, 91ÖÆƬ³§
  Funded by: Broad Art Foundation and Courtauld Scholarships
  Special option: ‘Artists and Friars: the Renewal of Painting in Assisi and Siena in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries’
• 2000-2003,ÌýMA and Certificate of Advanced 91ÖÆƬ³§ in Art Conservation, SUNY Buffalo State College
  Funded by: Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship and SUNY Research Foundation Scholarship
• 1995-1996,ÌýPG Certificate (Corso di Perfezionamento), University of Florence
  Subject: La scienza per la conservazione dei beni culturali
• 1995-1996,ÌýPG Diploma in Art Conservation, SACI, Florence
  Funded by: Jules Maidoff Scholarship
• 1988-1992,ÌýBA in Fine Arts, San Francisco Art Institute
  Major subject: Printmaking

Teaching

• 2019 Autumn term, Graduate Teaching Assistant, 91ÖÆƬ³§, Foundations Course Lectures (Classical and Byzantine Art, The Middle Ages, Renaissance Art, Early Modern China, European Architecture)
• 2008-2014,ÌýAdjunct Faculty/Lecturer, American University of Rome
  Lecturer and instructor of undergraduate courses on the History of Art and the Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage
• 2005-2006,ÌýCourse Coordinator and Academic Advisor to the Conservation Department, Lorenzo de’ Medici Institute, Tuscania
• 2003-2004,ÌýAdjunct Faculty, SACI, Florence
  Thesis Advisor and Lecturer for the Post-Baccalaureate program in Art Conservation

Professional experience

Print Room Assistant (curatorial support), The Courtauld Gallery, London,Ìý2017-2018

Contract Paintings Conservator, Katherine Ara Limited, London, 2010, 2011

Samuel H. Kress Conservation Fellow, Medieval and Renaissance Galleries Project, Victoria & Albert Museum, London,Ìý2006-2007

Associate Paintings Conservator, Steven Prins and Company, Santa Fe,Ìý1999-2000,Ìý2002,2004, 2005, 2006

Collections Docent for the Sir Harold Acton Collection, Villa La Pietra, New York University, Florence,Ìý2004-2005

Contract Paintings Conservator, Matteo Rossi Doria/Centro di Restauro Studio Barbabianca, Rome,Ìý2004-2005

Research, Special Collections and Archives, Utah State University (conducted in Florence), 2004

Graduate Intern in Paintings Conservation, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh,Ìý2002-2003

Research interests

• Technical art history
• Italian art betweenÌý1280-1480
• Artistic networks
• Historic painting practices
• Illuminated manuscript production
• Ecclesiastical and monastic patronage
• Materials use and relationships (particularly relationships between the techniques of painting, manuscript illumination, metalwork, stained glass, leatherwork, embroidery)

Conference papers

• ‘TheÌýcartolaiÌýconnection: assessing the artistic networks of Florentine manuscript production at the turn of the fifteenth century’, Annual Postgraduate Symposium, 91ÖÆƬ³§, London, 8-9 October 2020
• ‘Networks and Allegiances: a brief look at the painter-illuminators of Sant’Egidio c. 1420’,ÌýGiotto’s Circle, 91ÖÆƬ³§, London, 3 June 2019
• Session chair, ‘Workshops and Artistic Methods’ atÌýConversing and Connecting Over Time, Annual Postgraduate Symposium, 91ÖÆƬ³§, London, 16 May 2019
• ‘A brief study of the painter-illuminators at Sant’Egidio c.1420’ atÌýNew Dialogues in Art History, The Warburg Institute, London, 27 February 2019
• Session chair,ÌýThe Colors of Paradise: Painting Miniatures at Italian Convents, ca.Ìý1300-1700, 5th Annual Jane Fortune Conference, co-organized by the Medici Archive Project and the Museo Nazionale di San Marco, Biblioteca di San Marco, Florence, 11-12 October 2018
• ‘Santa Maria degli Angeli or not? Considering Florentine artistic networks and the painter-illuminators of Fitzwilliam MS 30’ atÌýMedieval Collaborations, 22^ndÌýAnnual Medieval Postgraduate Colloquium, 91ÖÆƬ³§, London, 4 February 2017
• ‘Making the Cardinal’s Missal: Looking anew at the Circle of Lorenzo Monaco and the Illuminators of Fitzwilliam MS 30’ atÌýMANUSCRIPTS in the MAKING: Art and Science, The Fitzwilliam Museum and Departments of Chemistry and History of Art, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, 8-10 December 2016
• ‘Lorenzo Monaco and the Missal of Cardinal Acciaiuoli: Patronage, Production and the Painter-Illuminators of Early Renaissance Florence. A work in progress.’ atÌýLeuven-Lille-London study group Annual Conference, 91ÖÆƬ³§, London, 1 April 2015
• Session chair,ÌýMovement in Medieval Art and Architecture, 20^thÌýAnnual Medieval Postgraduate Colloquium, 91ÖÆƬ³§, London, 7 February 2015
• ‘Gold, Glass and Light: The Franciscan vision in representations of the stigmata’ atÌýthe Association of Art Historians 40^thÌýAnnual Conference, Royal College of Art, London, 10-12 April 2014
• ‘Accounting for Taste: Retaining an Historic Restoration from a Sienese Accounts Book’ atÌýthe American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works, 36^thÌýAnnual Meeting, Denver CO, 21-24 April 2008
• ‘Concepts of authenticity as related to a 15^thÌýcentury FlorentineÌýCassoneÌýpanel in the V&A Museum’ atÌýArt, Conservation and Authenticities: Materials, Concept, Context,Ìý2^ndÌýAnnual Conference,ÌýICON Scotland and University of Glasgow, Glasgow, 12-14 September 2007

Publications

• ‘Making the Cardinal’s Missal: Looking anew at the Circle of Lorenzo Monaco and the Illuminators of Fitzwilliam MS 30’, inÌýManuscripts in the Making: Art and Science, edited by S. Panayotova and P. Ricciardi. London and Turnhout: Harvey Miller/Brepols, 2017
• ‘Gold, Glass and Light: The Franciscan vision in representations of the stigmata’, inÌýColour and Light in Ancient and Medieval Art, edited by C. Duckworth and A. Sassin. Farnham: Ashgate, 2017
• ‘Concepts of authenticity as related to a 15th century FlorentineÌýcassoneÌýpanel in the V&A Museum’ inÌýArt, Conservation and Authenticities: Material, Concept, Context,Ìýedited by E. Hermens and T. Fisk. London: Archetype Publications, 2009
• ‘Accounting for Taste: Retaining an Historic Restoration from a Sienese Accounts Book’,ÌýAIC Paintings GroupÌý36th Annual MeetingÌýpost-prints, Denver, 2009
• ‘Renaissance PaintedÌýCassoni’
,ÌýV&A Conservation Journal, No. 56, Spring 2008
• ‘The Not So Secret Formulas of Jacques Maroger: An Investigation of the Manufacture and Use of Maroger Mediums’,ÌýANAGPIC Conference post-prints, Cambridge, 2004