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, Courtauld Institute 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, Courtauld Institute 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”, Courtauld Institute of Art (Autumn Term 2024/25)
Teaching Assistant – BA1 Foundations, Courtauld Institute 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 (91Ƭ), 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 (91Ƭ) 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 (91Ƭ) 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), Courtauld Institute 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, Courtauld Institute 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