Professor of History of Art Criticism, she is Director of the Postgraduate School in Historical and Artistic Heritage, which is a consortium of 14 Italian universities. She is co-director of the class A journal “Fontes. Journal of Iconography and History of Art Criticism” and the series “Paradeigma,” and is a member of the scientific committees of three class A journals: “Rivista d’Arte,” “Studi di Storia dell’Arte,” and “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 a board member of the Foundation for Agricultural Education of Perugia.

Research topics: art historiography between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, artist biographies, travel literature, art journals, museology, wooden sculpture, and the history of Umbrian art as well, collecting, dispersion of artistic heritage, iconology and patronage, Cesare Ripa’s Iconology. Author of 290 publications, she has written monographs on Palazzo Trinci in Foligno, the Napoleonic seizures in Umbria, 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 of the five-hundredth anniversary of Perugino’s death.  

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