teaches as Associate Professor of 17th- and 18th-Century European Art at the School of Art of the University of Washington (Seattle). Her main focus lies on seventeenth- and eighteenth-century European art and architecture, especially Roman Baroque sculpture. She studied the impact of Greek classicism on the Dutch-Roman artist François Duquesnoy and is actually preparing a book on the innovative potential of another particular sculptor of the Roman Seicento, Francesco Mochi.