Professor of History of Art Criticism, she is Director of the School of Specialization in Historic-Artistic Heritage, which is consortium of 14 Italian universities. She is Co-director of the top-tier journal “Fontes. Journal of Iconography and History of Art Criticism” and of the series “Paradeigma”, and is part of the scientific committees of three top-tier journals: “Rivista d’Arte”, “Studi di Storia dell’Arte”, “Storia della Critica d’Arte”.

From 2014 to 2020 she was Director of the University Center for Scientific Museums at the University of Perugia and board member of the Foundation for Agricultural Education of Perugia.

Research topics: art historiography between the 18th and 19th centuries, artists’ biographies, travel literature, art journals, museology, wooden sculpture and history of Umbrian art, collecting, dispersion of artistic heritage, iconology and patronage, Iconology of Cesare Ripa. Author of 290 publications, she has published monographs on Palazzo Trinci in Foligno, on Napoleonic requisitions in Umbria, on the sculptor Nero Alberti da Sansepolcro, Pomarancio, Sassoferrato, Fabio della Corgna, and Cavalcaselle in Umbria.

She has curated numerous art history exhibitions. In 2018 she won the UmbriaRoma prize. In 2022, she was appointed by the Minister of University and Research to the national committee for the celebrations marking the five hundredth anniversary of Perugino's death.

In 2024, she was appointed by ANVUR as interdisciplinary GEV for the enhancement of knowledge.