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Katerina is a specialist in late medieval and Renaissance art. She completed her PhD in art history and archaeology at the Institute of Fine Arts in New York. She has spent two years as a Kress Foundation Institutional Fellow at the Warburg Institute and a year as a Curatorial Fellow in the Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In the three years prior to joining the Courtauld, she taught as a lecturer at Birkbeck, the University of Exeter, and the University of Birmingham.

Katerina’s work to date has examined the representation of dead and dying bodies in Italy circa 1400 to1550. Her research shows��that Renaissance artists represented the transient moment of death in painting, sculpture, and print, and that they were compelled to do so by a pervasive emphasis placed on this moment by popular culture.

Her forthcoming project unearths the lost significance of breath in late medieval and Renaissance Europe by examining how the fundamental connection between life and breath was explored in both religious and artistic practice.